saw it mentioned in the newspaper this morning. The long extracts I read a
couple of months ago were brilliant. A must buy. I will try and paste in the
info from the Faner website:
Helen, the world's most beautiful woman, the wife of Lord Menelaos of
Sparta, left Greece in the company of Paris, the son of Priam, King of Troy.
To repossess her, a thousand Greek ships sailed to Troy. Nine years have
passed. The Greeks have not achieved their aim. Indeed, after a quarrel
between Achilles their leader and Agamemnon their king, the Trojans, led by
Paris's brother, Prince Hector, have driven the Greeks off the plain of Troy
and back behind the palisade protecting their ships. Achilles refuses to
help them. It is night . . .
The scene is set for Cold Calls, the fifth and penultimate instalment
of Logue's Homer, an ongoing project - a piece of performance-art for the
page rather than the stage - which has taken several decades to unfold, and
has been described by Derek Mahon as 'Less a translation than an adaptation.
Less an adaptation, in fact, than an original poem of considerable power.'
ISBN: 0 571 20277 2
Format: Paperback
Published: March 03, 2005
Pages: 56pp
Price
Douglas Clark, Bath, Somerset, England ....
http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com
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