Josephine Balmer 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

  1. ↑ Josephine Balmer, Royal Literary Fund, 2018
  2. 1 2 Survival, The Paths of (13 April 2012). "Josephine Balmer". The Paths of Survival. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 "Josephine Balmer", Modern Poetry in Translation
  4. ↑ The Stephen Spender Prize 2015 for poetry in translation, Stephen Spender Trust, 2015
  5. ↑ Team, Edit (13 January 2010). "1st Annual Lambda Literary Awards". Lambda Literary. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  6. ↑ "The 2017 Prize Shortlist | London Hellenic Prize". Archived from the original on 21 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  7. 1 2 "Poems & Fragments | Bloodaxe Books". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  8. ↑ "Classical Women Poets | Bloodaxe Books". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  9. ↑ "Poems of Love and Hate | Bloodaxe Books". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  10. 1 2 Bassnett, Susan (2011), "Translation or Adaptation", Reflections on Translation, Multilingual Matters, pp. 40–41, ISBN 9781847694089
  11. ↑ "Chasing Catullus | Bloodaxe Books". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  12. ↑ Salt. "The Word for Sorrow". Salt. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  13. ↑ "Josephine Balmer | Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception Studies | Open University". www.open.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ "The Paths of Survival by Josephine Balmer". The Poetry Book Society. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  16. ↑ Marriott, James (2 December 2017). "Best poetry books of 2017". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  17. ↑ "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.
  18. ↑ "Jo Balmer | Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception Studies | Open University". www.open.ac.uk. Retrieved 21 January 2019.
  19. ↑ "Josephine Balmer - Ghost Passage". Shearsman Books. Retrieved 4 June 2022.


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