After Fame

The Epigrams of Martial

Sam Riviere

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Faber & Faber
28 April 2020

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

After Fame is a discursive rendering of the Roman epigrammatist Martial's Book I. Its 118 poems, on themes such as work, friendship and public life, are modelled after the source material through a variety of 'treatments' - most notably machine translation (for which Latin still presents near-insurmountable difficulties), employing the results as scaffolding for poems that quickly improvise their way clear of their originals. As it progresses, the book is increasingly interrupted by reflections on authorship, technology, cultural complicity and the privileged, mediating role of the poet: all fixations of Martial's work that still resonate today. Pitched between translation and new writing, After Fame challenges the integrity of both categories, dramatising the obscurity of its source, refraining from easy equivalences, while insisting on its contemporary relevance.

By: Sam Riviere
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 160g
ISBN: 9780571356928
ISBN 10: 0571356923
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 28 April 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sam Riviere is the author of the poetry collections 81 Austerities (2012) and Kim Kardashian's Marriage (2015). Safe Mode (2017) is his first work of fiction. He runs the micropublisher If a Leaf Falls Press.