Mea Roma by Martial, trans. by Art Beck Emily Hasler masculinity and hip-hop

masculinity and hip-hop

and a fresh new look

an award-winning poet whose debut collection Jinx was published by Bloodaxe in 2018

Contains the poem 'Joy' - Winner of the 2016 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem

and range through the recurring violences of history and myth

Mea Roma by Martial, trans. by Art Beck Emily Hasler masculinity and hip-hopThis sampling covers some of the usual suspects, epigrams, verse tags, scurrilous and otherwise, but it also includes a number of poems from the Liber Spectaculorum, the Book of Spectacles, devoted to poems on the Games at the Colosseum and, often, in praise of Caesar. Martials themes can make the modern reader very uncomfortable, as well as make them laugh, even 2,000 years after his death.