Dreaming of an Ancient Country by Virgil, translated by Fred Beake #Translatedpoetry This long poem unfolds in

This long poem unfolds in beautifully-drawn images of the poet's homeland - mountains and forests

Taylor listens to the drovers

give way to classical mythology and the Bible

This is work that communicates a palpable buzz

and distended narratives it envisions a space of play and ecstatic influence

Dreaming of an Ancient Country by Virgil, translated by Fred Beake #Translatedpoetry This long poem unfolds inVirgil wrote The Georgics in the 30s BCE at a time of political uncertainty in the Roman state and although country matters are to the fore in the selections chosen and translated in this chapbook, there is also from time to time an underlying sense of unease. The passages from Books 1, 2 and 3 have an agricultural theme, dealing respectively with raising crops, raising trees, and breeding livestock and horses and from Book 4, with bee keeping. The