‘Queen, to you, a horse’

Published in the context of a A friend of a friend, a book about rumour, gossip and anecdote, ‘Queen, to you, a horse’ recollects the story of Sappho, the Greek poet. Sappho’s biography and body of work is riddled with erasures, conflicting accounts and missing pieces.

‘Queen, to you, a horse’ takes different sources about Sappho to form a fragmented, and often self-contradicting account of her life, work and legacy with a particular focus on her position as a queer icon. It invites the reader to think about questions of veracity, fragmentation, omission and history.