Nobody by Alice Oswald Immanuel Mifsud the poet is faced by

the poet is faced by those smaller wars and memorials one carries within

she creates a seething

that Julia Blackburn is one of the most original writers in Britain

moments of acute observation and imagination

Murmur is a poetry of meditation

Nobody by Alice Oswald Immanuel Mifsud the poet is faced byThis is a book length poem a collage of water stories, taken mostly from the Odyssey about a minor character, abandoned on a stony island. It is not a translation, though, but a close inspection of the sea that surrounds him. There are several voices in the poem but no proper names, although its presiding spirit is Proteus, the shape shifting sea god. We recognise other mythical characters Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra,