Catullus: Shibari Carmina by Isobel Williams The Nameless Places The Ministry of Flowers speaks

The Ministry of Flowers speaks eloquently to a society in need

The poems that make up the book’s opening sequence

the foot stompers

 The Herald [on Sleeping under the Juniper Tree]

Catullus: Shibari Carmina by Isobel Williams The Nameless Places The Ministry of Flowers speaksCarcanet publishes several Catulluses: C. H. Sisson's, Len Krisak's, Simon Smith's. But Isobel Williams's Catullus: Shibari Carmina is different in kind from the earlier versions. 'Translating Catullus has been, for me, like cage fighting with two opponents,' the translator writes: 'not just A Top Poet, but the schoolgirl I was, trained to show the examiner that she knew what each word meant.' The struggle is intensified by the presence of a third