Sappho: Poems & Fragments was first published by Brilliance Books in 1984. In 1996 Bloodaxe Books published a revised and corrected edition, for which Josephine Balmer re-wrote much of the introductory material and corrected and altered her translations of the poems. This was reprinted in 1999 and 2014.

This second, expanded edition (2018) includes Josephine Balmer’s translations of eight recently discovered fragments not included in the previous editions along with a new essay, ‘The New Fragments: Texts, Translations and Retranslations’.