Poem Title |
Original Publication |
CP Page no |
Immortality |
Raw Material, Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2011 |
Not included in CP |
Allusion to Classical figure Orpheus, Dionysus, Bacchae
Allusion to Classical place Lydia, Rome, Egyptian pyramids
Close translation of words/phrases/excerpts The poem is loosely based on Propertius' Elegies III, 2.
Comment The Sextus and Cynthia poems were first published in a limited edition (Oldcastle: The Gallery Press, 2009).