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Michael Longley: Spiderwoman

Poem Title

Original Publication

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Spiderwoman

The Ghost Orchid, London: Jonathan Cape, 1995

205

Allusion to Classical figure Metamorphoses

Relationship to Classical text Version / adaptation Ovid Metamorphoses 6.5-145

Comment See P. McDonald,  "An Interview with Michael Longley." Thumbscrew 12 (1988-9): www.poetrymagazines.org.uk.  '…half Ovid and half me' (Michael Longley).

Note Previously published in eds M. Hoffman and J. Lasdun, After Ovid: New Metamorphoses, 1994, London, Faber