Josephine Balmer
@jobalmer
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Poet, classical translator, scholar, critic. Motors on Cotes de Provence rose.
East Sussex
Joined April 2012
Bette consulting Liddell & Scott's Greek dictionary for take your dog to work day http://t.co/jkOxzdsFfh
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Very happy to have a poem in the latest issue of the lovely @theinterpreter6
https://t.co/dHxvSxOxV6
theinterpretershouse.org
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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 https://t.co/Vuof6xG2EE
shearsman.com
Shearsman Books organises regular reading events for Shearsman authors, generally serving as a launch-pad for newly-published volumes.
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Publication day! A blog on my Selected Poems which is out today. @ShearsmanBooks @p_nikolaou
https://t.co/0l47xI7cjn
thepathsofsurvival.co.uk
Today sees the publication of Things We Leave Behind: Selected Poems, the culmination of twenty-one years’ work as a published poet (and more than forty as a classical translator). Edited by Pascha…
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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: https://t.co/OVKEt2QeNf
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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.
Arion’s fall issue is printing now. Subscribe to be among its first readers: https://t.co/OVKEt2QeNf
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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: https://t.co/23q1VTzOx4
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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: https://t.co/aCKm4STxEt
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Launch event: Tues 5th November, The Forum, 5-7.30pm. All welcome. More info:
artsandcultureexeter.co.uk
The Arts and Culture team work across the colleges and campuses of the University of Exeter, and with creative partners around the South West region and beyond. Our mission is to Activate Creativity.
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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.
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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... https://t.co/w30e8BvCMn
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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):
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Really thrilled to have 3 poems in the latest issue of Shearsman magazine. Many thanks to guest editor Kelvin Corcoran, Tony Frazer & @ShearsmanBooks
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Out now! Shearsman 141 & 142! Featuring poetry by @jobalmer, Daragh Breen, @imlcc, @amyevansbauer, Mischa Foster-Poole, @Carrie_Etter, Huw Gwynn Jones, @jjhlinklater, Sujatha Menon, @JohnMuckle5, Tom Phillips, @Shadow2train, Rimas Uzgiris & many more! https://t.co/0dmaH9dRss
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It’s been a dreadful 14 years but thank god for the music. The Guardian picks a song for each Tory year:
theguardian.com
Dave’s lament for the Grenfell atrocity, Dua Lipa’s bedroom disco for a locked-down nation, Kneecap’s Badenoch-riling rap, Elbow’s hymn for asylum seekers … here are the tracks that defined 14 years...
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I was 48 & already in heart failure by the time I was diagnosed with a congenital heart valve condition. If you’re feeling breathless do get checked out…:
theguardian.com
Researchers say in most cases condition is mild but it can increase risk of heart attacks and strokes
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Cornish language revives on back of psych-pop and Covid
theguardian.com
Significant rise in number of people taking lessons amid surge in interest in language declared extinct a decade ago
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