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ESSAYS

From 'Where the Rot Set In', The Junket, September 2015

‘"I don’t want to do this any more, man," says Micky. He looks past the camera as two arrows whistle into the belly of his cavalry costume. "These fake arrows, and this junk, and the fake trees… Bob, I’m through. It all stinks, man." He turns and walks briskly off through the scrub ..." Click to continue reading.

From 'Where the Rot Set In', The Junket, September 2015

'In a certain sense, Ovid died in obscurity. That was what the emperor Augustus intended when he sentenced him to lifelong “relegation” at Tomis – for an offence we only know of through Ovid’s own mysterious phrase "a poem and a mistake"'... Click to continue reading.

From 'Ovid's Rise and Fall and Rise', The Telegraph, December 2017

'A few days ago I finished translating Paul Valéry’s Le Cimetière Marin. I was pleased to finish, considering that it must have taken me a little over two years. It’s easy enough to lose track of time, but I know I can't have started more ...' Click to continue reading.

From 'Cemeteries by the Sea', The Junket, May 2012

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