Duncan Wiese and TITYRUS: A PASTORAL

"There is a genuine search for something - much of the time it turns out to be distraction."

Duncan Wiese joins me from Denmark to discuss his new collection of poetry based on Virgil's Eclogues, Tityrus: A Pastoral. Published by Lolli Editions (more info here!), the poems were translated by Max Minden Ribeiro (Pelle Hvenegaard’s Dear Zoe Ukhona and Finn Juhl: Life, Work, World by Christian Bundegaarand) and  Sam Riviere (81 Austerities, Kim Kardashian's Marriage)

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Rippling Points

Life in the twenties: Tityrus as an emblem of finding your way in life, sitting alongside pop culture.

Driven to distraction: how 'Rome's great poet's' ideas of the pastoral influenced a story of today.

Reference Points

Writers
Anne Carson
Virgil's Eclogues - You can read on Project Gutenberg for free here: 

TV Shows
Beverly Hills 90210
Friends
That 70's Show.