a superb version...these new poems, made by Carson out of Sappho, are subtle, beautiful, precise, moving. Margaret Reynolds, THE TIMES This collection of her [Sappho's] fragments gives you everything, for the first time... INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY The beautiful blur of Sappho's work, the rhythms, the ornate grammar, the singing sounds she teases out of rare words...are impossible to match. DAILY TELEGRAPH Imaginatively presented and superbly prefaced, this collection is both heartrending and uplifiting. INDEPENDENT