Book description
The Road to Inver gathers the verse translations of Tom Paulin from
four decades, and brings together distinguished versions of classical
and European poets which have appeared in his previous collections,
from Liberty Tree (1983) to The Wind Dog (1999). But The Road to Inver
also includes dozens of new and recent translations from the European
canon; it is at once a new volume of poetry by Tom Paulin and a
personal anthology of European poetry, ranging from Horace to Heine
and covering a surprising range of French, German, Russian and Italian
poets. The Road to Inver is the richest collection of its kind since
Robert Lowell's Imitations.
Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was
educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has published eight
collections of poetry as well as a Selected Poems 1972-1990, two major
anthologies, two versions of Greek drama, and several critical works,
including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style and,
most recently, Crusoe's Secret: The Aesthetics of Dissent. His most
recent collection of poems is The Road to Inver (2004). Well known for
his appearances on the BBC's Newsnight Review, he is also the G. M.
Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.
