Homunculus by James Womack #Shearsman and takes us forward into

and takes us forward into the present and the darkening future of other extinctions

one is forced to the conclusion that she is becoming a poet who

formal range and swaggering music

drawing parallels of displacement

Homunculus by James Womack #Shearsman and takes us forward intoHomunculus 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