British poet and translator
Josephine Balmer (born 1959) is a British poet, translator of classics and literary critic.[ 1] [ 2] She sets the daily Word Watch and weekly Literary Quiz for The Times .[ 2]
She was born in 1959 in Hampshire and now lives in East Sussex .[ 3] She studied classics at University College, London and was awarded a PhD degree by publication by the University of East Anglia .[ 3]
She was Chair of the British Translators' Association from 2002–2005, and reviews editor of the journal Modern Poetry in Translation from 2004–2009. She was a judge of poetry translation for the Stephen Spender Prize in 2006–2009 and 2015.[ 4]
In 1989 her translation Sappho: Poems and Fragments was shortlisted for the inaugural US Lambda Literary Awards.[ 5] In 2017 her collection The Paths of Survival was shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize.[ 6]
Works
Sappho: Poems and Fragments (1984, 1988 & 1992) [ 7]
Classical Women Poets (1996)[ 8]
Catullus: Poems of Love and Hate (2004)[ 9] [ 10]
Chasing Catullus: Poems, Translations and Transgressions (2004) [ 11] [ 10]
The Word for Sorrow (2008)[ 3] [ 12] [ 13]
Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry (2013) [ 14]
The Paths of Survival (2017) [ 15] [ 16]
Letting Go: thirty mourning sonnets and two poems (2017) [ 17] [ 18]
Sappho: Poems and Fragments New Expanded Edition (2018) [ 7]
Ghost Passage (2022) [ 19]
References
^ Josephine Balmer , Royal Literary Fund, 2018
^ a b Survival, The Paths of (13 April 2012). "Josephine Balmer" . The Paths of Survival . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
^ a b c "Josephine Balmer" , Modern Poetry in Translation
^ The Stephen Spender Prize 2015 for poetry in translation , Stephen Spender Trust, 2015
^ Team, Edit (13 January 2010). "1st Annual Lambda Literary Awards" . Lambda Literary . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
^ "The 2017 Prize Shortlist | London Hellenic Prize" . Archived from the original on 21 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
^ a b "Poems & Fragments | Bloodaxe Books" . www.bloodaxebooks.com . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
^ "Classical Women Poets | Bloodaxe Books" . www.bloodaxebooks.com . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
^ "Poems of Love and Hate | Bloodaxe Books" . www.bloodaxebooks.com . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
^ a b Bassnett, Susan (2011), "Translation or Adaptation", Reflections on Translation , Multilingual Matters, pp. 40–41, ISBN 9781847694089
^ "Chasing Catullus | Bloodaxe Books" . www.bloodaxebooks.com . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
^ Salt. "The Word for Sorrow" . Salt . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
^ "Josephine Balmer | Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception Studies | Open University" . www.open.ac.uk . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
^ Balmer, Josephine (26 September 2013). Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry . Classical Presences. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199585090 .
^ "The Paths of Survival by Josephine Balmer" . The Poetry Book Society . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
^ Marriott, James (2 December 2017). "Best poetry books of 2017" . The Times . ISSN 0140-0460 . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
^ "Agenda Poetry, Poem, Poetry, Articles, Essays, William Cookson, Patricia McCarthy, Magazine, Critic, Review" . www.agendapoetry.co.uk . Archived from the original on 8 August 2018. Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
^ "Jo Balmer | Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception Studies | Open University" . www.open.ac.uk . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
^ "Josephine Balmer – Ghost Passage" . Shearsman Books . Retrieved 4 June 2022 .
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