The Paths of Survival by Josephine Balmer Roy Fisher The title is a Dantesque

The title is a Dantesque imperative as old as the Trecento: Ordina questo amore

who speaks ‘sixty-two Vietnamese bird languages’ but ‘hasn’t yet mastered English

elegy and celebration

Each of the sonnets in this section devote themselves to the sad adventure of this heartbreak

the best 100 human rights poems from across the world over the last 100 years

The Paths of Survival by Josephine Balmer Roy Fisher The title is a DantesqueThe Paths of Survival explores the fragility of the written word; the ways in which it is destroyed and the ways in which, by each fresh miracle, it endures against all the odds. Tracing the few surviving fragments of Aeschyluss lost tragedy, Myrmidons, which notoriously depicted the doomed love of the Greek hero Achilles for his fellow warrior Patroclus, the volume moves backwards in time across two and a half millennia; from a tiny scrap of papyrus