Urban Myths and Legends Costa Prize Mayakovsky and Attila Joszef

Mayakovsky and Attila Joszef

together with new and previously unpublished work

danger or intense concentration

as the present work of recreation picks

we learn to see the world as contested space: a battleground between received ideas

Urban Myths and Legends Costa Prize Mayakovsky and Attila JoszefUrban Myths and Legends is a sparky collection of poems by modern poets who have taken inspiration from the Roman poet Ovids Metamorphoses. The poems all tell stories which include a transformation some inspired directly by the Metamorphoses and some completely new and of our time. Wings sprout, leaves fall and a traffic warden is rudely interrupted, as the poets channel Ovids mischief and whisper tales of just and unjust deserts.