“Homing”: from the ‘Ithaca Conversations’ Series

I’ve been talking poetry a bit more than usual lately (at least since the sad demise of the Tuesday Poem community), mainly sparked by the Boosted campaign for the Canterbury Poets, so in that spirit, it feels like time for a poem.

Homing is from the Ithaca Conversations series and (for those who don’t know the story) centers on Odysseus’s (aka Ulysses) return to his home island of Ithaca after twenty years’ away: ten years fighting in the Trojan War (The Illiad) and ten years of storms, shipwr...