To retrieve the ‘Iliad’s’ energy, Alice Oswald has stripped away its story and her account focuses by turns on Homer’s extended similes and on the brief biographies of the minor war-dead, most of whom are little more than names, but each of whom lives and dies unforgettably – and unforgotten – in the copiousness of Homer’s glance.

Author Alice Oswald Published by Faber & Faber ISBN 9780571274185 EAN 9780571274185 Bic Code Cover Paperback