Nobody by Alice Oswald #valentines cantos al olvido(Speaking in Song

cantos al olvido(Speaking in Song / Hearing and Forgetting

taken mostly from the Odyssey – about a minor character

whose poems live at the edge of loss

and the Scholar is an eloquent plea for the centrality

This landmark anthology celebrates six centuries of poetry from Trinity College

Nobody by Alice Oswald #valentines cantos al olvido(Speaking in SongThis is a book length poem a collage of water stories, taken mostly from the Odyssey about a minor character, abandoned on a stony island. It is not a translation, though, but a close inspection of the sea that surrounds him. There are several voices in the poem but no proper names, although its presiding spirit is Proteus, the shape shifting sea god. We recognise other mythical characters Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra,