...In 1958 Christopher Logue produced his first ‘account’ of the Iliad, ‘Achilles Fights the River’, following encouragement from two BBC producers, Donald Carne-Ross and Xanthe Wakefield. Over the next four decades, Logue produced several more accounts, now known collectively...

...This chapter opens up a dialogue between recent scholarship on Homeric similes, and the creative use of these similes in the poetry of Christopher Logue, Michael Longley, and Derek Walcott. In its reading of the modern poems, it analyzes how the Homeric simile is used to map the distance between...

... Hans-Thies Lehmann storytelling narrative turn podcast Christopher Logue Hadestown rhapsodic theatre In 2002 the Algerian theatre designer Abd’Elkader Farrah gave an account of his early life as a child in North Africa in the late 1920s and early 1930s: …the market … the public storyteller called...

...Christopher Logue's versions form Homer, War Music, begin with a view: ‘picture the east Aegean sea by night’. In what follows, episodes from Homeric narrative and allusions to modern life are located on the same artificial landscape, and the narrative zooms in and out. This mode...

... a greater scope and would also be less predictable and therefore more engaging in performance.’ ²⁴ Commissioning for radio is a significant strand in performance epic and was vital in the genesis and development of Christopher Logue’s War Music. ²⁶ Logue’s commission...

...This chapter examines Christopher Logue's adaptations of the Iliad as a case-study in mediating the foreignness of Homer for modern, anglophone readers. Although Logue's Homer draws freely on modern technologies, contemporary cultural references, and the full tradition of English...

... reader and always near the top of the class. In 1958 he attended his first poetry reading courtesy of an established poet by the name of Christopher Logue, who would have a profound impact on his life. Charles née McGough Brenda Kerouac Jack McGough Mary McGough Roger Francis McCartney Paul Feather...

... of winning honour and glory. Detailed attention to the critical receptions by Simone Weil and Rachel Bespaloff and the poetic receptions of Alice Oswald and Christopher Logue show in detail how these authors understand, interpret, and transform the Iliadic representation of warfare in accordance...