Beowulf: In Blank Verse by Richard Hamer #Bloodaxebooks "Blackthorn" (1994) and "Nantucket and

"Blackthorn" (1994) and "Nantucket and the Angel" (1997)

Very few Nobel Prize-winning poets leave a body of work which remains untranslated into English more than 40 years after their death

silly/serious world which is exactly what the actual world looks like if you creep up on it and take it by surprise

The book focuses on the extraordinary development of war experience into the familiarity of the period which is ‘now and England’

the first English poet

Beowulf: In Blank Verse by Richard Hamer #Bloodaxebooks "Blackthorn" (1994) and "Nantucket andThe Anglo Saxon epic Beowulf tells the story of the hero's slaying of three fabulous monsters, set against the historical background of sixth century Scandinavian wars and dynasties. Its alliterative and metrical rules are complex, and many previous translators have attempted to replicate them. Here, blank verse has been used, as being more suitable for the less inflected and freer syntax of modern English, and therefore offering a more familiar and