Fifteen rounds with Horace, with Aiden Everett, Ovid and assorted other poets writing in Latin

Tuesday, 16th June, 2026

7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

*Five Leaves Bookshop
14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG12DH

Full details of programme and booking will follow, but there will be refreshments though sadly no posca or conditum

Horace’s Odes, with their wide-ranging themes encompassing love, friendship and the uncertainty of human life, are one of those timeless works of art that are always contemporary. Aidan Everett presents us with lively translations from the Latin interspersed with his own new poems, full of verve and wit, in which the Roman poet’s interlocutors talk back.

The book includes Latin text and detailed notes.

These renderings of the Odes skilfully negotiate between Horace’s age and our own, and Everett’s fictional ‘answering voices’ strike the same balanced note. An impressive achievement.
Jem Poster, Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University