Homunculus by James Womack Richard Osmond songs and poetry from some

songs and poetry from some of the greatest writers in the English language

The result is a series of poems that feel urgent and true

I did not emulate my uncles’ lives

One language is falling silent every two weeks

Homunculus by James Womack Richard Osmond songs and poetry from someHomunculus is a long poem from award winning poet and translator James Womack, based around the Elegies of the Roman poet Maximian. The last of the Roman poets, Maximian wrote in the sixth century, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire; critics have called his Elegies 'one of the strangest documents of the human mind', and W. H. Auden singled him out as a 'really remarkable poet'. Womack's versioning of the Elegies shows how this harsh poem of