Sappho Luke Powell Stations have become mini-statelets

Stations have become mini-statelets

headlined the Glastonbury festival four times and been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame in 2019

ditto treacly self-examination

play some practice games-and you'll quickly be saying "checkmate"

A dream that one day they will have some land of their own

Sappho Luke Powell Stations have become mini-stateletsThese hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, directthe best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.