{"product_id":"austerity-measures-the-new-greek-poetry","title":"Austerity Measures : The New Greek Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'I remember caresses, kisses, touching each other's hair. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe had no sense that anything else existed'- Elena Penga, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e'Heads''Nothing, not even the drowning of a child Stops the perpetual motion of the world'- Stamatis Polenakis, 'Elegy'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince the crisis hit in 2008, Greece has played host to a cultural renaissance unlike anything seen in the country for over thirty years. Poems of startling depth and originality are being written by native Greeks, émigrés and migrants alike.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThey grapple with the personal and the political; with the small revelations of gardening and the viciousness of streetfights; with bodies, love, myth, migration and economic crisis. In Austerity Measures, the very best of the writing to emerge from that creative ferment - much of it never before translated into English - is gathered for the first time. The result is a map to the complex territory of a still-evolving scene - and a unique window onto the lived experience of Greek society now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hellenic Bookservice","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56388293296507,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0913\/6862\/0411\/files\/AM_a037f83a-1e46-40eb-9482-eb635e5cb414.jpg?v=1787323210","url":"https:\/\/hellenic-books.com\/products\/austerity-measures-the-new-greek-poetry","provider":"Hellenic Bookservice","version":"1.0","type":"link"}