Homunculus by James Womack

Homunculus by James Womack

A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2021 Homunculus is a long poem from award-winning poet and translator James Womack, based around the Elegies of the Roman poet Maximian. The last of the Roman poets, Maximian wrote in the sixth century, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire; critics have called his Elegies 'one of the strangest documents of the human mind', and W.H. Auden singled him out as a 'really remarkable poet'. Womack's versioning of the Elegies shows how this harsh poem of sex and old age can speak to our own contemporary, collapsing world.

'On Trust is a witty, eloquent, troubling collection' - Sean O'Brien

James Womack is a poet and translator, based in Cambridge. He is the author of four collections with Carcanet: Misprint (2012); On Trust: A Book of Lies (2017); Homunculus (2020), and Why Are You Shouting? (2024). He translates widely from Spanish and Russian, and has put together anthologies for Carcanet of Vladimir Mayakovsky ('Vladimir Mayakovsky' And Other Poems, 2016) and Manuel Vilas (Heaven, 2020). He is currently working on contemporary Russian and Spanish poets and has recently completed a science fiction novel.

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ISBN 13	9781784109912
ISBN 10	1784109916
Title	Homunculus
Author	James Womack
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published	2020-09-24
Number of pages	88
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