Lost Voices

Lost Voices reimagines Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul as a chorus of the silenced. Drawing on the Commentaries yet refusing their authority, David Batten’s sequence gives voice to legionnaires, chiefs, mothers, and the land itself, revealing the campaign not as civilising triumph but as devastation—systematic, intimate, and enduring.
Across eight movements mirroring the original campaigns, these poems inhabit both conqueror a