This is a selction of the poems of Theocritus, a man frm sicily who later moved to Alexandria and lived less than a hundred years after Alexander the Great. The poems are in the voices of ordinary people of the period and often sound surprisingly modern. The style is highly colloquial as friends and lovers chat and moan. They are translated by Fred Beake (who lived for many years in Bath and founded the Bath Writer's Workshop). They are illustrated by me and beautifully printed by Philip Kuhn of Intinerant Press. It is a small "Artist's" edition of 30. each signed by the translator and the illustrator, and is available for £30 post free, from R.F.Beake Flat 4, 29 Crownhill Park, Chelston, Torquay, TQ2 5LW. Cheques made out to R.Beake 
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