In ancient Rome the ides of each month were when accounts were commonly settled. Merchants met with their creditors and debtors. Most famously, Julius Ceaser was stabbed by Brutus and 21 other senators, to restore the political balance of the republic.
These ides, however, see two poets swop a poem mid-month for almost two years. The exchanges were conducted by email, with the Athenaeum Library, Melbourne, acting as their shared cultural home. You are invited to follow their zig zagging path through a wide-ranging collection of poems, which balance and teeter on many of life’s eternal questions.
