War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue the song weigher or as we seek to

or as we seek to reassemble ourselves and our past

Colette Bryce is an Irish poet currently based in the North East of England

But this book is also rare in reflecting the concerns of readers from all walks of life

often stripped down to single-word lines

his early baldness (Skalla in his name means 'bald') and his exceptional ugliness

War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad by Christopher Logue the song weigher or as we seek toA new, complete edition of Christopher Logue's acclaimed reimagining of Homer's Iliad, collected for the first time in a single volume and including previously unpublished material. For the second half of his long life, Christopher Logue (1926 2011) political rebel, inventor of the poster poem, pioneer of poetry and jazz was at work on a very different project: a rewriting of Homer's Iliad. The volumes that appeared from War Music (1981) onwards were