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Gilgamesh Retold jenny lewis is an Anglo-Welsh poet, playwright, songwriter, children’s author and translator who teaches poetry at Oxford University. She trained as a painter at the Ruskin School of Art before reading English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. She has worked as an advertising copywriter and a government press officer for, among others, the Equality and Human Rights Commission. She has also written children’s books and plays and co-written, with its creator, Kate Canning, a twenty-six-part children’s TV animation series, James the Cat. Her first poetry sequence, When I Became an Amazon (Iron Press, 1996) was broadcast on BBC Woman’s Hour, translated into Russian (Bilingua, 2002) and made into an opera with music by Gennadyi Shizoglazov which had its world premiere with the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Company in Perm, Russia, November 2017. Since 2012, Jenny has been working with the Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh on an award­-winning Arts Council-funded project, ‘Writing Mesopotamia’, which aims to build bridges and foster friendships between English and Arabic-speaking communities. Her work for the theatre includes Map of Stars (2002), Garden of the Senses (2005), After Gilgamesh (2011) and, with Yasmin Sidhwa and Adnan al-Sayegh, Stories for Survival: a Re-telling of the 1001, Arabian Nights (2015). She has published two collections with Oxford Poets/Carcanet, Fathom (2007) and Taking Mesopotamia (2014). Jenny is currently completing a PhD on Gilgamesh at Goldsmiths.
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carcanet classics include Dictator/Gilgamesh adapted by Philip Terry Beowulf by Chris McCully Pearl translated by Jane Draycott Edmund Blunden Selected Poems edited by Robyn Marsack Catullus The Books of Catullus edited and translated by Simon Smith Rebecca Elson A Responsibility to Awe: Collected Poems edited by Anne Berkeley, Angelo di Cintio and Bernard O’Donoghue John Heath-Stubbs Selected Poems edited by John Clegg Walter Pater Selected Essays edited by Alex Wong Propertius Poems translated by James Womack Arthur Rimbaud Illuminations translated by John Ashbery George Seferis Collected Poems translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard Charles Tomlinson Swimming Chenango Lake: selected poems edited by David Morley William Carlos Williams Collected Poems volumes I and II edited by A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan

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carcanet classics include

Dictator/Gilgamesh adapted by Philip Terry

Beowulf by Chris McCully Pearl translated by Jane Draycott Edmund Blunden Selected Poems edited by Robyn Marsack Catullus The Books of Catullus edited and translated by Simon Smith

Rebecca Elson A Responsibility to Awe: Collected Poems edited by Anne Berkeley, Angelo di Cintio and Bernard O’Donoghue

John Heath-Stubbs Selected Poems edited by John Clegg

Walter Pater Selected Essays edited by Alex Wong Propertius Poems translated by James Womack Arthur Rimbaud Illuminations translated by John Ashbery George Seferis Collected Poems translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard

Charles Tomlinson Swimming Chenango Lake: selected poems edited by David Morley

William Carlos Williams Collected Poems volumes I and II

edited by A. Walton Litz and Christopher MacGowan

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