Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments - Sappho It is both a sustained

It is both a sustained meditation on the mosaic of peoples and practises we call 'Africa'

by angels that line the roof like insects

Deep in grief

abandoned time capsule where a great artist once lived

deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts

Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments - Sappho It is both a sustainedBy turns subversive, erotic and poignant, Sappho is one of the most versatile and exquisite poets in Classical literature. Invoking female deities, Sappho summons the Muses for inspiration and beseeches Aphrodite's allegiance in a battle of the heart, while episodes from the Trojan War are told from a woman's perspective as Helen makes her fateful choice between family and love, and Andromache arrives in Troy to marry Hector. Here, too, Sappho sings