The Translation Reading Group

Join us for an open discussion of Alice Oswald's new version of the Iliad, Memorial.  Oswald's startling poem rewrites the epic in a way that is deeply conscious of its oral nature.  She writes: 'This translation of the Iliad's atmosphere, not its story.... [It] takes away its narrative, as you might lift the roof off a church to remember what you are worshipping.'  Is translation an act of selective worship?

(Extracts will be made available in advance).

Contact: Tania Demetriou