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  • Christopher Logue: War Music

  • The Author’s Own Recording
  • By: Christopher Logue
  • Narrated by: Christopher Logue
  • Length: 4 hrs and 49 mins
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War Music is a dramatic poem based on Homer’s Iliad. Logue worked on it for more than 40 years, and it was left incomplete at his death in 2011. At the time of this recording it was divided into three parts: "Kings", "The Husbands", and "War Music", the last of which is further divided into three sections: "Patrocleia", "GBH", and "Pax". War Music later became the poem’s general title. Commissioned in the first instance by BBC Radio, War Music changed slightly as it developed, which means that there are a number of small discrepancies between the published and the recorded work.

The Iliad itself is a continuous narrative of some 16,000 lines and is generally thought to be the product of a poetic tradition as much as or even more than of an individual poet. It tells the story of the war fought over the departure of Helen from Greece to Troy.

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Christopher Logue’s account of the Iliad is extraordinary. It has expanded my life. The reading in the poet’s own voice is unbeatable. I have returned to it many times.

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