Stung with Love. Poems and Fragments by Sappho Anne Wroe Spiritlands invites you into a

Spiritlands invites you into a territory that is at once individual and plural

as in his favourite quotation from David Jones

Where the algorithms of the body and the memory fail

in both her themes and experiments with form

Described by its author as a document of ‘minimalist interventions’

Stung with Love. Poems and Fragments by Sappho Anne Wroe Spiritlands invites you into aIntroduction by Carol Ann Duffy Translated by Aaron Poochigian More or less 150 years after Homers Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some 500 years after her death. The surviving texts consist of a lamentably small and fragmented body of lyric poetryamong them poems of