@isobelwilliams25.bsky.social
Books: 'The Supreme Court: A Guide for Bears' (UK); 'Switch: the complete Catullus' @carcanet.bsky.social; chapter in 'Women Re-Creating Classics' https://isobelwilliams.org.uk
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And yet, not in spite of the occasional excess but because of it, her book gets at a lot of what makes Catullus Catullan: the daring, the boundary-pushing, the emotional nakedness.
And yet, not in spite of the occasional excess but because of it, her book gets at a lot of what makes Catullus Catullan: the daring, the boundary-pushing, the emotional nakedness.
Catullus | The Hudson Review
hudsonreview.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
3/3
And yet, not in spite of the occasional excess but because of it, her book gets at a lot of what makes Catullus Catullan: the daring, the boundary-pushing, the emotional nakedness.
And yet, not in spite of the occasional excess but because of it, her book gets at a lot of what makes Catullus Catullan: the daring, the boundary-pushing, the emotional nakedness.
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2/3
[Williams] imagines that Catullus is into shibari, or Japanese rope bondage…I’m not sure how much this fetishism really adds to our understanding of Catullus, and Williams’ version of the coverlet poem is way over the top…
[Williams] imagines that Catullus is into shibari, or Japanese rope bondage…I’m not sure how much this fetishism really adds to our understanding of Catullus, and Williams’ version of the coverlet poem is way over the top…
September 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
2/3
[Williams] imagines that Catullus is into shibari, or Japanese rope bondage…I’m not sure how much this fetishism really adds to our understanding of Catullus, and Williams’ version of the coverlet poem is way over the top…
[Williams] imagines that Catullus is into shibari, or Japanese rope bondage…I’m not sure how much this fetishism really adds to our understanding of Catullus, and Williams’ version of the coverlet poem is way over the top…
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Charles McGrath reviews Switch: The Complete Catullus, tr. by Isobel Williams @carcanet.bsky.social:
1/3
By far the oddest, most eccentric, and most original of the recent Catullus renderings is Isobel Williams’ Switch: The Complete Catullus, which in many respects is hardly a translation at all...
1/3
By far the oddest, most eccentric, and most original of the recent Catullus renderings is Isobel Williams’ Switch: The Complete Catullus, which in many respects is hardly a translation at all...
September 15, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Charles McGrath reviews Switch: The Complete Catullus, tr. by Isobel Williams @carcanet.bsky.social:
1/3
By far the oddest, most eccentric, and most original of the recent Catullus renderings is Isobel Williams’ Switch: The Complete Catullus, which in many respects is hardly a translation at all...
1/3
By far the oddest, most eccentric, and most original of the recent Catullus renderings is Isobel Williams’ Switch: The Complete Catullus, which in many respects is hardly a translation at all...
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My comment on the Telegraph article on the Bayeux tapestry:
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
September 28, 2025 at 10:04 AM
My comment on the Telegraph article on the Bayeux tapestry:
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
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Tomorrow, please join Carcanet author Isobel Williams at the Financial Times Weekend Festival, as she delivers a talk on 'Why the Greeks and Romans are all the rage'.
The event can be attended either online or in-person. For more information:⬇️
ukftweekendfestival.live.ft.com/agenda/speak...
The event can be attended either online or in-person. For more information:⬇️
ukftweekendfestival.live.ft.com/agenda/speak...
FT Weekend Festival
Join us for our annual UK edition, in London, online & on demand, on Saturday, 6 September 2025 for a chance for FT Weekend readers from all over the globe to engage with our journalists and one another - and enjoy a fun, stimulating day of performances, tastings, interviews and debate.
ukftweekendfestival.live.ft.com
September 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Tomorrow, please join Carcanet author Isobel Williams at the Financial Times Weekend Festival, as she delivers a talk on 'Why the Greeks and Romans are all the rage'.
The event can be attended either online or in-person. For more information:⬇️
ukftweekendfestival.live.ft.com/agenda/speak...
The event can be attended either online or in-person. For more information:⬇️
ukftweekendfestival.live.ft.com/agenda/speak...
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Want to find out how women are creating and re-creating Classics? Read an excerpt from... 👇
📖 Women Creating Classics: A Retrospective - bit.ly/3UhNNbm
📖 Women Re-Creating Classics: Contemporary Voices - bit.ly/4kGOAh1
📖 Women Creating Classics: A Retrospective - bit.ly/3UhNNbm
📖 Women Re-Creating Classics: Contemporary Voices - bit.ly/4kGOAh1
July 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Want to find out how women are creating and re-creating Classics? Read an excerpt from... 👇
📖 Women Creating Classics: A Retrospective - bit.ly/3UhNNbm
📖 Women Re-Creating Classics: Contemporary Voices - bit.ly/4kGOAh1
📖 Women Creating Classics: A Retrospective - bit.ly/3UhNNbm
📖 Women Re-Creating Classics: Contemporary Voices - bit.ly/4kGOAh1
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OUT NOW: Women Creating Classics and Women Re-Creating Classics. Find out more: bit.ly/4kxHZFI
Drawing together creative and scholarly voices, these two volumes ask why classical re-tellings by women are so popular and what these re-tellings can do to foster new ways of thinking about Classics.
Drawing together creative and scholarly voices, these two volumes ask why classical re-tellings by women are so popular and what these re-tellings can do to foster new ways of thinking about Classics.
July 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
OUT NOW: Women Creating Classics and Women Re-Creating Classics. Find out more: bit.ly/4kxHZFI
Drawing together creative and scholarly voices, these two volumes ask why classical re-tellings by women are so popular and what these re-tellings can do to foster new ways of thinking about Classics.
Drawing together creative and scholarly voices, these two volumes ask why classical re-tellings by women are so popular and what these re-tellings can do to foster new ways of thinking about Classics.
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@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social considers how the Roman poet Catullus continues to seduce us.
Why Catullus Continues to Seduce Us
Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record of a divided and fascinating self.
www.newyorker.com
March 31, 2025 at 6:27 PM
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social considers how the Roman poet Catullus continues to seduce us.
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So I'll be back around then. We'll be trying to raise a bit of money for Centrepoint, bearing in mind that there are a bunch of people who have nowhere to go this evening. gofund.me/637d21d0 ENDS FOR NOW 🎄🛏️
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December 24, 2024 at 9:14 AM
So I'll be back around then. We'll be trying to raise a bit of money for Centrepoint, bearing in mind that there are a bunch of people who have nowhere to go this evening. gofund.me/637d21d0 ENDS FOR NOW 🎄🛏️