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    Gilgamesh Retold
    Gilgamesh Retold
    Gilgamesh Retold
    Audiobook1 hour

    Gilgamesh Retold

    Written by Jenny Lewis

    Narrated by Jenny Lewis and Colin Still

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    About this audiobook

    Jenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgamesh’s city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns and women had their own language – emesal. With this shift of emphasis, Lewis captures the powerful allure of the world’s oldest poem and gives it a fresh dynamic while creating a fastpaced narrative for a new generation of readers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCarcanet Press
    Release dateJun 26, 2019
    ISBN9781784108779
    Gilgamesh Retold
    Author

    Jenny Lewis

    Jenny Lewis is a poet, playwright, translator and songwriter who teaches poetry at Oxford University. She has had seven plays and poetry cycles performed at major UK theatres and published four collections; the most recent, Gilgamesh Retold (Carcanet, 2018), was a New Statesman Book of the Year, an LRB Bookshop Book of the Week and Carcanet's first audio book. Jenny has also published three chapbooks from Mulfran Press in English and Arabic with the exiled Iraqi poet Adnan Al-Sayegh which are part of the award-winning, Arts Council-funded 'Writing Mesopotamia' project aimed at building bridges between English and Arabic-speaking communities. Jenny's first book, When I Became an Amazon (Iron Press, 1996/ Bilingua, Russia, 2002) was set to music by Gennadyi Shiroglazov and performed by the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Company in 2017 and, for International Women's Day 2023, by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Jenny's album of her 1960's songs, (including 'Seventeen Pink Sugar Elephants', co-written with Vashti Bunyan in 1963 and newly arranged and played by Vashti with Gareth Dickson) is forthcoming in 2024.

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    • 5/5
      Very beautifully and thoughtfully crafted. Adaptation and reasoning well explained.
    • 5/5
      Best version I've heard, but her pronunciation of Gil-GAWW-mesh can be jarring for someone used to hearing it another way all their life. Just nitpicking, it's a great rendition.