Back home from Troy with Helen, Menelaus reflects. The vision of the reunion at the fall of Troy is by the fifth century BCE Brygos painter. Read the poem by J de S Westbrook here.


The English poet John Westbrook turns his attention from classical subjects to more contemporary issues: world population and the environment. See his “7,000,000,001” here.
The illustration by Emil Keyser is entitled “Expulsion from the Garden of Eden”.
In today’s post here, Westbrook uses clerihews to poke fun at famous novelists and the cantankerous critic FR Leavis.