Poetry. Laurie Duggan's THE EPIGRAMS OF MARTIAL is a new and revised edition of the book published by Scripsi in 1989. Peter Craven describes Duggan's MARTIAL as "sensuous, streamlined, and throughly unsavoury" and Hugh Kenner called the translations "remarkable." Poet August Kleinzahler contributed an afterword to this edition.
Author Hometown: Faversham, Kent UK
About the author: Laurie Duggan is a poet, editor and translator born in Melbourne, Australia in 1949. He attended Monash University, moved to Sydney where he became involved in the scene around John Tranter's magazine Scripsi. He taught at several colleges in Australia before moving to England where he now lives and works.
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