Homer’s Odyssey by Simon Armitage
The Poet Laureate Simon Armitage reinvigorates the Odyssey, while amplifying its timelessness in ‘a version with a modern idiom and sensibility that is loyal enough to its original to be recommendable to anyone daunted by the idea of reading the real thing’ (Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Sunday Times).
Omeros by Derek Walcott
Omeros (the Greek name for Homer) by the Nobel Prize-winning Derek Walcott is celebrated for its power. Seamus Heaney called it ‘incantatory and self-entrancing . . . It can be athletic and demotic . . . It can compel us with the almost hydraulic drag of its words.’
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde by Lavinia Greenlaw
In A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde, Lavinia Greenlaw distils the story of lovers trapped within the besieged city of Troy, as well as within themselves.
Aeneid Book VI by Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney’s version of Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI was published posthumously and is a deeply powerful contemplation of the underworld and what connects and divides the living and the dead.
War Music by Christopher Logue
‘An ambitious, ferociously compelling re-casting of Homer’s Iliad.’ Sean O’Brien
Memorial by Alice Oswald
‘Alice Oswald throws the windows of the imagination open; she places a fingertip on the pulse of tradition and proves it is still very much alive.’ The Times
Faber has recently published the new screenplay from Christopher Nolan, available now.
Buy the Screenplay
The new screenplay from Christopher Nolan.