# Austerity Measures

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- Book: [Austerity Measures](https://www.bookquiver.com/karen-van-dyck/austerity-measures) ([Austerity Measures.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/karen-van-dyck/austerity-measures.md))
- Authors: [Karen Van Dyck](https://www.bookquiver.com/karen-van-dyck)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-02-4125-062-4
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2016-04-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Since the crisis hit in 2008, we have heard much about Greece's economic travails. This year, the world watched as Syriza dramatically took a stand against austerity - and, after months of attrition, finally capitulated. But this is not the whole story. As Karen Van Dyck shows in this anthology of the very best contemporary Greek poetry - much of it made available here for the first time in outstanding English translation by such trusted translators as A. E. Stallings - the last decade has also seen a remarkable flowering of new creative talent. These are poems concerned with the personal and the political; with the small pleasures of the suburban garden and the viciousness of streetfights; with bodies, love, myth, migration and economic crisis. Together, they form a unique window onto the lived experience of Greek society now.