Poem Title |
Original Publication |
CP Page no |
The Midnight Note |
Raw Material, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2011 |
Not included in CP |
Length / Form Ten-line stanzas, laid out on the page in imitation of the elegiac meter (with alternate lines indented).
Allusion to Classical figure Cynthia, Anio's nymphs, Venus
Allusion to Classical place Tivoli (not Tibur, as Propertius has it), the Scythian wilds
Close translation of words/phrases/excerpts The poem is a version of Propertius' Elegies III, 16
Comment The Sextus and Cynthia poems were first published in a limited edition (Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2009).