Nobody by Alice Oswald #valentines taken mostly from the Odyssey

taken mostly from the Odyssey – about a minor character

Described as “a writer of great tenderness and lyricism” (Agenda

This landmark anthology celebrates six centuries of poetry from Trinity College

Wagner's poems celebrate what he has called 'our steaming

whose poems live at the edge of loss

Nobody by Alice Oswald #valentines taken mostly from the OdysseyThis is a book length poem a collage of water stories, taken mostly from the Odyssey about a minor character, abandoned on a stony island. It is not a translation, though, but a close inspection of the sea that surrounds him. There are several voices in the poem but no proper names, although its presiding spirit is Proteus, the shape shifting sea god. We recognise other mythical characters Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra,