This is a booklength poem a collage of waterstories taken mostly from the Odyssey about a minor character abandoned on a stony island. It is not a translation though but a close inspection of the sea that surrounds him. There are several voices in the poem but no proper names although its presiding spirit is Proteus the shapeshifting seagod. We recognise other mythical characters Helios Icarus Alcyone Philoctetes Calypso Clytemnestra Orpheus Poseidon Hermes who drift in and out of th