Christopher Logue: War Music
The Author’s Own Recording

Quotes

“The war it portrays is real, and harsh, and horrible; but the music is real, too.” New York Times

“War Music is at once an ancient and a modern poem, a triumph of virtuoso rhetoric.” New Statesman

“One can hardly help oneself from singing the lines Logue puts in our mouths as well as our minds.” New York Review of Books

“Less a translation than an adaptation. Less an adaptation, in fact, than an original poem of considerable power.” The Observer (London)

“The careful reader may notice the care of Logue’s line endings, the sy hum of his iambic pentameter, the lovely repetition of ‘sigh’ and the complex imbrication of sighing sounds. It is through such care that Homer is so triumphantly renewed for our age.” The Guardian (London)

“[Logue’s] considerable work in theater and film as actor, playwright, and screenwriter nourished the poetry, much of which was dramatic in nature, and also helped make him one of his generation’s finest readers of verse.” London Review of Books

“A work of great virtuosity, something completely original in style and stance…Faithful in tone and spirit to the essential Greekness of the old poem. More than this, the characters who figure are drawn with economy and clarity—they spring off the page…a small ‘triumph of skill and beauty.’” London Magazine

“I am crazy about it. Haven’t seen such poetry in ages.” Henry Miller, American writer, artist, and author of Tropic of Cancer

“Never was blood bloodier or fate more fatal.” Louis MacNeice, Irish poet and playwright

“A lasting harvest.” George Steiner, multiaward-winning writer and literary critic

Awards

• London Times Pick