TityrusDuncan Wiese (translated from Danish by Max Minden Ribeiro and Sam Riviere) The ideals of simple country living have captivated poets for a crows age. But in the countryside that Tityrus knows, the beech trees tower like skyscrapers, mice wrestle each other, and the nearby island is infected by swarms of gulls. The forest is a source of energy, but also the home of a behemoth transformer substation and where a little boy has drowned. The shepherds are

and an inventory of figureheads

Due to its severe restraints Catullus came alive in all his 'tormented intelligence and romantic versatility'

speaking simultaneously for the one and the many

For Wallace Stevens

Janani Ambikapathy has written a short review of the book for Poetry Foundation

as the work of our shared subjects in perceiving and projecting pasts

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takes his bearings from Robert Minhinnick's seminal Welsh anthology The Adulterer's Tongue

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