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the book also includes an Index of Characters

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treated with respect and even affection

It parallels acknowledged greats with forgotten masters

Nobody, by Alice Oswald teatowel the book also includes anThis 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,