Spartacus — Mmxii

Here is the text of the poem Spartacus MMXII by Simon Armitage. This poem was commissioned for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad and originally appeared as a large-scale public artwork.

And I’d heard of his final battle, the last stand, and his crucifixion there, and the famous story of how his body was never found anywhere. spartacus mmxii

So I went to the hill where the ragwort grows, the slope where the dog-rose leans, with a half-brick wrapped in a carrier bag, with a copy of Big Issue magazine. Here is the text of the poem Spartacus

We flared and we fused in the halo of streetlights, we danced and we dived and we ducked, till the shop windows rained, till the windscreens wept, till the airbags burst and the bumpers bucked. So I went to the hill where the