In ‘Daisy’, Alice Oswald uses the evolving imagery of a narrator considering her actions towards a daisy to symbolise the meekness and conformity socially linked to womanhood- and the poem’s progressively aggressive tone mirrors her desire to...

‘The Song of Achilles’ is at once a scholar’s homage to the Iliad, and a startlingly original work of literature by American novelist Madeline Miller. Conjuring a world where capricious gods and unbreakable prophecies are simply part of life,...

Most translations of Homer’s The Iliad keep the entire narrative of the story, incorporating Homer’s themes on the glory of war. Alice Oswald, however, chooses to deviate from this aspect of Homer’s epic in her Memorial: A Version of Homer’s...