Alice Oswald’s Memorial, a poetic reworking of Homer’s Iliad, has won the Poetry Society’s Corneliu M Popescu prize for poetry in translation, it was announced on Friday night. Oswald was chosen as winner from 79 submitted collections, representing 26 languages. Judges Karen Leeder and David Wheatley said Oswald had turned Homer "into a contemporary war poet, taking an audacious concept – the trimming down of the Iliad to its death scenes – and imbuing the results with compelling formal necessity. Memorial answers to its Greek original, yet stands as an autonomous and deeply moving work of art.” Earlier this year Memorial became the first work of poetry to win the £25,000 Warwick prize for writing. You can hear Oswald reading an extract from Memorial here