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British poet and translator
Josephine Balmer is a British poet, translator of classics and literary critic.
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[2] She sets the daily Word Watch and weekly Literary Quiz for The Times.
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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Works
Sappho: Poems and Fragments (1984, 1988 & 1992)
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Classical Women Poets (1996)
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Catullus: Poems of Love and Hate (2004)
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Chasing Catullus: Poems, Translations and Transgressions (2004)
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The Word for Sorrow (2008)
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Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry (2013)
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The Paths of Survival (2017)
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Letting Go: thirty mourning sonnets and two poems (2017)
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Sappho: Poems and Fragments New Expanded Edition (2018)
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Ghost Passage (2022)
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References
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Josephine Balmer , Royal Literary Fund, 2018
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b Survival, The Paths of (13 April 2012).
"Josephine Balmer" . The Paths of Survival . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
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"Josephine Balmer" , Modern Poetry in Translation
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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 .
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"The 2017 Prize Shortlist | London Hellenic Prize" . Archived from
the original on 21 January 2019. Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
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"Poems & Fragments | Bloodaxe Books" . www.bloodaxebooks.com . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
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"Classical Women Poets | Bloodaxe Books" . www.bloodaxebooks.com . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
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"Poems of Love and Hate | Bloodaxe Books" . www.bloodaxebooks.com . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
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b Bassnett, Susan (2011), "Translation or Adaptation", Reflections on Translation , Multilingual Matters, pp. 40–41,
ISBN
9781847694089
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"Chasing Catullus | Bloodaxe Books" . www.bloodaxebooks.com . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
^ Salt.
"The Word for Sorrow" . Salt . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
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"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 .
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"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 .
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"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 .
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"Jo Balmer | Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception Studies | Open University" . www.open.ac.uk . Retrieved 21 January 2019 .
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"Josephine Balmer – Ghost Passage" . Shearsman Books . Retrieved 4 June 2022 .
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