One of the inventive elements of Logue’s metaphors is the way he mixes up eras, blithely planting a country called Australia in an ancient Greek context. And the idea of wind plucking chickens adds another layer of originality.

See also the bestellar reviews, complete with rich quote-mosaics, of Adam Nicolson’s magnificent Why Homer Matters and Logue’s War Music, a muscular rendition of several books of the Iliad. 

‘It was so quiet in Heaven that you could hear

The north wind pluck a chicken in Australia.’

Source: Christopher Logue, War Music, London: Faber and Faber, 2001, p. 41