Poet, classical translator, scholar, critic. Motors on Cotes de Provence rose.
East Sussex
Joined April 2012
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This is such sad news. I met Marguerite at a Sappho conference in Oxford & we corresponded regularly about poetry afterwards. She was a great scholar and a lovely person
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Thank you @arionjournal!
Arion highlights Josephine Balmer whose Things We Leave Behind was The Observer’s poetry book of the year for 2025. Purchase it here: shearsman.com/store/Josephin…
And you can enjoy a selection in Balmer and Elena Theodorakopoulos’ 2024 Arion contribution here: bu.edu/arion/files/2026/05/B…
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Josephine Balmer ( who has done some great classical translations) reviews my Talking Classics. observer.co.uk/culture/books…
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Josephine Balmer has done some great classical translations, so I enjoyed what she had to say about Talking Classics observer.co.uk/culture/books…
Very thrilled by this lovely review of my Selected Poems from @ShearsmanBooks in today’s The Observer @ObsNewReview by the incredibly thoughtful @JadeCuttle.
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Very happy to have a poem in the latest issue of the lovely @theinterpreter6
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Looking forward to reading from 'Things We Left Behind: Selected Poems' at the next @ShearsmanBooks event with Jennifer Morag Henderson & special guest Yang Lian.
7.30 pm. Tuesday 14th October, Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury Way, London WC1
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Publication day! A blog on my Selected Poems which is out today. @ShearsmanBooks @p_nikolaou
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My Selected Poems have arrived! Available from @ShearsmanBooks now! shearsman.com/store/Josephin…
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Arion highlights Josephine Balmer and Elena Theodorakopoulos whose “Archaeology of the Heart” appears in our fall issue and lends one of its featured images to our cover. Subscribe here to be among its first readers: bu.edu/arion/subscribe
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A gorgeous cover image for the new @arionjournal! This beautiful amulet is held in the @EtonMyersColl. Inside the issue are poems responding to our collection by @jobalmer with an essay by Elena Theodorakopoulos.
Beautiful cover for the forthcoming edition of @arionjournal with the Nut amulet from @EtonMyersColl @CAHA_UoB. Thrilled to have the poem in the journal that’s inspired by it:
Arion's Fall issue goes to press soon. Subscribe here to be among its first readers: buff.ly/45f69gh
Lovely launch of Things We Leave Behind:Reflections of West Cornwall with Alistair Common on Tuesday. Exhibition runs until 14/11, The Forum, Uni of Exeter. More info here: artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/e…
Teaser trailer for Things We Leave Behind: Reflections of West Cornwall, an exhibition of poetry & photography with Alistair Common, The Forum, University of Exeter, 6-14th Nov. 6-9 daily. Free.
Launch event: Tues 5th November, The Forum, 5-7.30pm. All welcome. More info: artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/e…
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Title poem from @jobalmer's Ghost Passage (2022).🖤
From inscribed ancient artefacts & recently excavated writing tablets of Roman London, to tombstones in a remote Kent churchyard, the collection deciphers the hidden texts that weave through our past...
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Just over two weeks to go until Things We Leave Behind: Reflections of West Cornwall at The Forum, University of Exeter. Here is another pairing from the exhibition, Alistair Common’s mysterious image ‘Trevaylor Sentinels’ with my poem ‘The Way Down’ (including some Heraclitus):
More info at artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/e…)