Catullus: Shibari Carmina by Isobel Williams The Nameless Places the poet finds fresh words

the poet finds fresh words for why we should be hopeful and careful about this life

The poems that make up the book’s opening sequence

and this is well worth the wait

can a new world from the ashes of the old one now be formed

The Ministry of Flowers speaks eloquently to a society in need

Catullus: Shibari Carmina by Isobel Williams The Nameless Places the poet finds fresh wordsCarcanet publishes several Catulluses: C. H. Sisson's, Len Krisak's, Simon Smith's. But Isobel Williams's Catullus: Shibari Carmina is different in kind from the earlier versions. 'Translating Catullus has been, for me, like cage fighting with two opponents,' the translator writes: 'not just A Top Poet, but the schoolgirl I was, trained to show the examiner that she knew what each word meant.' The struggle is intensified by the presence of a third