Five Ages

Hesiods Five Ages famously proides a vision of the decline of human society that has resonated for many centuries. In this anthology five poets take Hesiods versions of the golden silver bronze heroic and iron ages as their starting points to craft five individual chapbooks of prose poetry - not only exploring notions from Hesiodbut also venturing into many new concepts that reconceptualise these ages.These twenty-first century poems challenge many of the archaic Greek poets assumptions and ideas writing back to the ancient world with bravura while employing quintessentially contemporary inflections and preoccupations.