After Ovid: New Metamorphoses

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After Ovid: New Metamorphoses is a collection of poems inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Michael Hofmann and James Lasdun, the two editors of After Ovid: New Metamorphoses, commissioned 42 poets from America, Australia, Great Britain, Ireland, and New Zealand to "translate, reinterpret, reflect on, or completely reimagine" Ovid's famous Metamorphoses.{{cite book |title=Latin Poetry and the Judgement of Taste: An Essay in Aesthetics |last=Martindale |first=Charles |year=2005 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-924040-X |pages=202 |url=https://books.google.com/books?client=firefox-a&q=%22After+Ovid:+New+Metamorphoses%22&um=1&num=100&as_brr=3 }} The poets include Alice Fulton, C.K. Williams, Mark Rudman, Seamus Heaney{{cite book |title=Classics in Progress: Essays on Ancient Greece and Rome |last=Wiseman |first=Timothy Peter |year=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0-19-726323-2 |pages=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7_ddt_LSl_wC&dq=%22After+Ovid:+New+Metamorphoses%22&pg=PA2 }} and Ted Hughes.{{cite news |first=James |last=Shapiro |title=Sex and Violence in Latin Hexameter |url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/12/14/reviews/971214.14shapirt.html?_r=1&oref=slogin |work=The New York Times |date=1997-12-14 |accessdate=2008-02-13 }}