An Antarctic tsunami
I loved the slowly growing momentum of this vast wave, though one has to hope it would never make landfall,...
Tar-dark hair
A surprising rendition of blackness, until you think of pitch-black. And here is Zeus again having to balance the requests...
As distinct as…
I like this geometric juxtaposition, though I might have made the distinction sharper: as distinct as circle and square? As...
Like a baby’s shawl
What a soft, enveloping cloud this must have been, of a gentle pastel hue. Chill autumn morning here, and I...
A tongue twister triologism
I liked this punchy, tongue-twisting image of remote and mountainous Macedon.
‘He will get home. That is to say,...
Crab-angled legs
Imperfect Hephaestus, ‘Vulcan’ to the Romans, blacksmith of the gods and semi-gods – Achilles’ incomparable armour is Hephaestus forged.
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The wave foreseen
A magnificent image of a proud and then crashing wave, thundering up a shaken coast, and used to signify the...
That’s no way to speak to God
Here we have Helen’s cuckolded husband Menalaus screaming at God in the most colourful terms. I like the idea of...
Sunlight like birds
This conveys the distant wink and sparkle of sun glancing off a choppy sea surface and appearing, at a distance,...
A shire-sized dust-sheet
The tearing of a dust-sheet isn’t an obvious sound to describe the dis-scabbarding of a Greek sword, and then Logue...
As quiet as…
Christopher Logue’s vivid, muscular version of some episodes in the Iliad abounds with striking metaphors – I noted about 60...
To charm, to change …
Odysseus is a tricky hero, part noble, upstanding and brave, part slippery, trickery, too-clever-by-half. He is a compelling orator, and...
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