Josephine Balmer's collections include The Word for Sorrow (2009 & 2013) and Chasing Catullus: Poems, Translations & Transgressions (2004). Her translations include Catullus: Poems of Love and Hate (2004), Classical Women Poets (1996) and Sappho: Poems & Frag-ments (1984 & 1992). Her study of classical translation and poetic versioning, Piecing Together the Fragments: Translating Classical Verse, Creating Contemporary Poetry, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. She has written widely on poetry and translation for publications such as The Observer, the Independent on Sunday, the Times Literary Supplement, the New Statesman, and The Times, for which she compiles the daily Word Watch and weekly Literary Quiz. A former Chair of the Translators' Association, she was reviews editor of Modern Poetry in Translation from 2004-2009, and is a judge for The Guardian/Stephen Spender Prize for poetry translation, and an advisor to the journal, Agenda. She studied Classics and Ancient History at University College, London, and was awarded a PhD in Literature and Creative Writing by the University of East Anglia.

• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Proem: Small Town Fete
• One: The Journey Out
• Naso's Book Back in Rome
• Hail
• Naso All at Sea
• Dancing in the Dark
• Naso's Last Night
• Malvern Road Station, Cheltenham
• The Horses
• By the Dardanelles
• Naso Sees the End of the Beginning
• Business
• Two: Landed
• Landed
• Naso Off the Shelf
• Between the Lines
• Knocking at the Door
• Naso Writes his Own Epitaph
• Among the Graves: Green Hill, Gallipoli
• Naso's Plight Hits Home
• Digging In
• Naso Sees Hell Freeze Over
• Hell Hole
• Last Orders
• Naso Lost for Words
• Thread
• Three: The Way Home
• Dictionary Definitions
• Naso Sees Action
• Welcome Note
• Naso Looks to the Stars
• Among the Graves: Ampney Crucis
• Seeking Quarter
• The Fall
• Naso's Back Story
• Among the Graves: Salonica
• Naso the Barbarian
• Up for Auction (1919)
• The Penny Pot
• Naso's Last Word
• The Word for Sorrow
• Epilogue: The Observer Book of Wild Flowers
• References and Notes
• Sources and Resources