REVIEW: Transposium - Dani Yourukova (Auckland University Press)
A volatile, witty, ribald and shameless mix of ancient philosophy thesis laced with the heady contents of a psycho-sexual Ancient Greek fever dream, 'Transposium' completely appropriates Plato and his mates and slaps them into a poetic re-interpretation of a panel chat session with the full expectancy of audience participation. Poem are set out like one of those self analysis quizzes we used to do as readers of women's magazines: Are you sensitive enough for a divorced man with mummy issues and a Ferrari? That kind of thing. It's a 'choose-your-own-adventure apocalypse'. The poems ask questions and depending on your answer send you off to another page for the answers and a definition: Whcih Philosopher will you be in the end? Phaedrus, Pausanias, Eryximachus, Aristophanes, Agathon, Socrates (although he gets crossed our and rightly so) or Alcibiades? Further on Alchibiade will choose their own adventures - assuming that's who ...