Pericles at Play

Congratulations to our editor Harriet Rix, who has been selected as one of London’s leading emerging writers.

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Brand new Pericles at Play! A SPECIAL EDITION on "Natural Histories", with zinging poems, translations, and prose from @nicohhhlette, @LJTodd, @rix_harriet, @arabellacurrie, @Joshuabtbarley and more... periclesatplay.com/natural-histor…

@LJTodd @arabellacurrie Absolutely - it must happen this summer, with lots of readings! Would be a dream.

Too kind, Lewis. Funny how having poems published in the pandemic (in @atPericles at Play) heightens the sense of being published *with* people. It would be nice to meet everyone in real life! Maybe we could have a Pericles Party????

One of our editors talking this evening about queerness in W. H. Auden's 'Daphnis and Chloe'.

Delighted to have 'Network (Woven Words)' accompany @LJTodd's brilliant poem 'Care Crosses the River' published today @AtPericles Issue 5 periclesatplay.com/natural-histor…

✨ It's here!!✨ If you missed our fantastic event last week with the ever-brilliant @theoctopiehole and @YungHumanist, you can watch it on YouTube here. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to be notified in the future when our talks are published online!🎉 youtube.com/watch?v=pko77q…

The second book we're publishing this month is Isobel Williams's Catullus: Shibari Carmina, a translation of Catullus through the art of Japanese rope bondage, shibari. ➰ Open this thread to read the introduction and some poems. We're launching the collection on March 24th!

You don't wanna miss Phiroze Vasunia talking about decolonisation!

Lord Byron writing pastoral poetry:

The most recent Runciman Lecture, delivered by Professor Emeritus David Ricks at @kingsCHS, is now easily accessible on YouTube. A rich and absolutely delightful lecture! (4 Feb. 2021, intro: Gonda Van Steen) @AngHellenLeague youtube.com/watch?v=CtF6Vn…

Some poems I love for how they shift in the light, year after year. Like this Auden, for instance.

"The explosion happened one mid-morning at the Swan Custard Factory." A treat for the holidays: new fiction from Camilla Grudova thewhitereview.org/fiction/the-cu…

📚 Fantastic to see our @Hercules_Leeds book, *The Modern #Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century*, out now - just in time for a #classicalreception Christmas 🎁

This is an absolutely effing phenomenal story and a one-stop demonstration of why we need Arts/Humanities researchers (or, even better, since there's some geology in there too, why the STEM/SHAPE divide is doing nobody any favours)

This week for #HellenicFridays we’re recommending Joshua Barley’s translation of a Greek folk song, published in the latest issue of 'Pericles at Play'. Grab yourself a cup of tea and enjoy ‘The Return of the Long-Lost Husband’ here: periclesatplay.com/the-return-of-… @KingsAHRI

Our good friends @AtPericles have just released their fifth issue, which includes a poem and translations by Stephanie Burt (Harvard) plus a Greek folk song translated by @Joshuabtbarley Read the latest issue here: periclesatplay.com/issue-5