Mea Roma by Martial, trans. by Art Beck Emily Hasler Contains the poem 'Joy' -

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

and range through the recurring violences of history and myth

Voices of the island echo through her first collection

for it was here that he cut his poetic teeth and became a major Lithuanian poet

but Kelly’s real achievement is to make sense of a sometimes teeming field of vision

Mea Roma by Martial, trans. by Art Beck Emily Hasler Contains the poem 'Joy' -This 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.