Today I have escaped to an island and written about "Philoctetes" and "The Tempest".

Big protest blocking my elder two sons' secondary school this morning in central Paris, as these protests spread across France.

Today I have written about wedding poems, including Donne’s, and why we are not very good at reading them.

Today I have taken a rather free-ranging look at a somewhat eccentric take on the English poetic canon. What does it look like if remove all the Protestants?

Today the first in a two-parter (I think, maybe three) about some similarities in the poetry — and translational challenges thereof — of the twelfth century in Europe and India.

Today I am back from holiday and have written about a stray diary entry in verse from 1628, and its glimpse into a reader’s life in the early 17th century.

I have just got back to Paris and yesterday I sent round the last of my summer reposts, this piece on e. e. cummings and Horace. Horace & friends will be back to normal next week. Happy rentrée to you all!

What’s the best thing you’ve ever read about literary translation / literature in translation? Can be general, specific, theoretical, pragmatic whatever, any combination of languages. I’m writing a piece about the ones that have stayed with me but curious which have been important for others too.