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Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 The Faces of Sappho
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Notes

  • Dedication: For my mother, Katharine Robins Carpenter Sligo, and for Rosalind Angelo Sligo, my sister, and her children - Marc, Lisa and Sara.

    With love and a sure knowledge that this re-interpretation of part of our past will meet with approval.

    And for Bruce Sims and Melanie Sandford, who already understand why it was written.

  • Epigraph: Passing by this Aeolian tomb, stranger, speak not of the poet of Mytelene as dead. For though this was built by the hands of men, and such human works sink quickly into oblivion, yet if you make enquiries of me ... you shall know that I have escaped the darkness of the underworld, since there shall never be the light of the sun that has not the knowledge of the lyrist, Sappho. Tullius Laurea, Cicero's freedman.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1990 .
      Extent: xi, 391p.p.
      ISBN: 0140121145 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Ambitious Search for an Interior Cosmos Katharine England , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 5 May 1990; (p. 13)

— Review of The Faces of Sappho John Sligo , 1990 single work novel
Lost Souls, Found Souls, Poetic Ambiguity and Ancient Mystics Tim Prenzler , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 9 no. 3 1990; (p. 65-66)

— Review of Vreemdeling in de Spiegel : Autobiografie van een Nederlandse Emigrante Lolo Houbein , 1988 single work autobiography ; The Bells are Ringing Howard Milligan , 1989 selected work poetry short story ; The Best Man for this Sort of Thing Margaret Coombs , 1990 single work novel ; Selected Poems of Jennifer Maiden Jennifer Maiden , 1990 selected work poetry ; The Faces of Sappho John Sligo , 1990 single work novel
Lost Souls, Found Souls, Poetic Ambiguity and Ancient Mystics Tim Prenzler , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , October vol. 9 no. 3 1990; (p. 65-66)

— Review of Vreemdeling in de Spiegel : Autobiografie van een Nederlandse Emigrante Lolo Houbein , 1988 single work autobiography ; The Bells are Ringing Howard Milligan , 1989 selected work poetry short story ; The Best Man for this Sort of Thing Margaret Coombs , 1990 single work novel ; Selected Poems of Jennifer Maiden Jennifer Maiden , 1990 selected work poetry ; The Faces of Sappho John Sligo , 1990 single work novel
Ambitious Search for an Interior Cosmos Katharine England , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser Magazine , 5 May 1990; (p. 13)

— Review of The Faces of Sappho John Sligo , 1990 single work novel
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    Egypt,
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    North Africa, Africa,
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    England,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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  • 1970s
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