Poems & Fragments by Sappho Julia Bird was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh

was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Best First Collection prize

giving us the lives of crocodiles and food testers

so much so that one might say that Maps of Desire represents the perfect union of poet and translator

Ranging from the playful to the elegiac

combining a troubadour’s musicality with full grasp of the moment

Poems & Fragments by Sappho Julia Bird was shortlisted for the AldeburghThis second, expanded edition of Josephine Balmer's classic translation of the Greek poet Sappho has new, recently discovered fragments, including the Brothers Poem, the Kypris Song and the Cologne Fragment. In a new essay on these additions she discusses the issues raised in the translating and in some cases retranslating of these fragmentary and ever shifting texts. Poems & Fragments is now the only complete, readily available translation in English