Nobody by Alice Oswald Immanuel Mifsud she creates a seething

she creates a seething

She is acutely aware of those women whose stories have disappeared: women who have been marginalised or forgotten and symbolised perhaps by the anonymous "aproned figure" in "Settlers' Museum"… Lives are decoded here with extraordinary psychological insight and intimacy

Angela Livingstone studied Russian and German at Cambridge

the poet is faced by those smaller wars and memorials one carries within

but this revisiting is quite different in style and mood

Nobody by Alice Oswald Immanuel Mifsud she creates a seethingThis 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,