A Life, Elsewhere by Marie Naughton Sextus Propertius gives voice to a little-known

gives voice to a little-known woman from the past

in which he sought to create an equivalent English for Hölderlin's extraordinary German recreations of the classic Greek verse plays

moving from youthful

Edward Mackay

of individual sensibility and the chronicling of quotidian collective drama

A Life, Elsewhere by Marie Naughton Sextus Propertius gives voice to a little-knownMarie Naughton is an astute and eclectic storyteller: her poems put us inside the head of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell whose discovery of radio pulsars in the 60s translated as a Nobel Prize in Physics for her male supervisor; of high wire artist Philippe Petit as he takes his first step on a line between the Twin Towers; and a lad whose tragic end hinges on a split second decision in his morning journey to work. Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst