Description
Shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, 2014
Erudite, witty and deeply weird, The Mundiad is a blistering parody of the contemporary world from one of Australia’s most unique literary imaginations.
Modelled on classical epics such as Virgil’s Aeneid and Pope’s Dunciad, The Mundiad is a mock epic poem celebrating the conception and birth of little Mundia, her heroic escape from her parents, medical staff and hospital, and journey into the real world. A world of deranged superstars, climate-change deniers, rogue states, multimedia extravaganzas, political bullshit, creepy talkback demagogues, financial crises, child soldiers, happy idiots, genetic engineering, death camps, pornographers and more.
Book Review: https://www.readings.com.au/reviews/the-mundiad-by-justin-clemens
