Josephine Balmer
She sets the daily Word Watch and weekly Literary Quiz for The Times. She was born in 1959 in Hampshire and now lives in East Sussex. She studied classics at University College, London and was awarded a PhD degree by publication by the University of East Anglia.
Josephine Balmer
- Born
- 1959 · Hampshire.
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- poet · literary critic · translator · classical scholar · classical philologist · historian · writer
- Education
- University of East Anglia
- Languages
- English
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She sets the daily Word Watch and weekly Literary Quiz for The Times. She was born in 1959 in Hampshire and now lives in East Sussex. She studied classics at University College, London and was awarded a PhD degree by publication by the University of East Anglia.
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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. In 1989 her translation Sappho: Poems and Fragments was shortlisted for the inaugural US Lambda Literary Awards. In 2017 her collection The Paths of Survival was shortlisted for the London Hellenic Prize.
• Sappho: Poems and Fragments (1984, 1988 & 1992) • Classical Women Poets (1996) • Catullus: Poems of Love and Hate (2004) • Chasing Catullus: Poems, Translations and Transgressions (2004) • The Word for Sorrow (2008) • Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry (2013) • The Paths of Survival (2017) • Letting Go: thirty mourning sonnets and two poems (2017) • Sappho: Poems and Fragments New Expanded Edition (2018) • Ghost Passage (2022)
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- 1.Survival, The Paths of. Josephine Balmer. The Paths of Survival. 2012-04-13.
- 2.Team, Edit. 1st Annual Lambda Literary Awards. Lambda Literary. 2010-01-13.
- 3.The 2017 Prize Shortlist London Hellenic Prize.
- 4.Poems & Fragments Bloodaxe Books. www.bloodaxebooks.com.
- 5.Classical Women Poets Bloodaxe Books. www.bloodaxebooks.com.
- 6.Poems of Love and Hate Bloodaxe Books. www.bloodaxebooks.com.
- 7.Chasing Catullus Bloodaxe Books. www.bloodaxebooks.com.
- 8.Salt. The Word for Sorrow.
- 9.Josephine Balmer Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception Studies Open University. www.open.ac.uk.
- 10.Balmer, Josephine. Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry. Oxford University Press. 2013-09-26. 9780199585090.
- 11.The Paths of Survival by Josephine Balmer. The Poetry Book Society.
- 12.Marriott, James. Best poetry books of 2017. The Times. 2017-12-02. 0140-0460.
- 13.Agenda Poetry, Poem, Poetry, Articles, Essays, William Cookson, Patricia McCarthy, Magazine, Critic, Review. www.agendapoetry.co.uk.
- 14.Jo Balmer Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception Studies Open University. www.open.ac.uk.
- 15.Josephine Balmer – Ghost Passage. Shearsman Books.
- 16.Royal Literary Fund. Josephine Balmer. 2018.
- 17.Bassnett, Susan. Reflections on Translation. Multilingual Matters. 40–41. 2011. 9781847694089.
- 18.Stephen Spender Trust. The Stephen Spender Prize 2015 for poetry in translation. 2015.
- 19.Josephine Balmer. Modern Poetry in Translation.
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