Assembly Lines [Poems]

Bloodaxe, Hexham 2018 (1st publ.)

Commane, Jane
Assembly Lines [Poems]
Bloodaxe, Hexham 2018 (1st publ.)
Größe: 8°
Seitenzahl: 64 S.
Einband: OBrosch.
Vorl. Spr. Orig.: Englisch
Monographie
Gedichte/Prosagedichte
Buch
- Verlagsinfo: Assembly Lines asks what it means to be here and now, in post-industrial towns and cities of the heartlands that are forever on the periphery. From schools and workplaces and lives lived in ‘a different town, just like this’, these poems take a historical perspective on the present day from the ground upwards – whether the geological strata that underpins a ‘dithering island’ or the ever-moving turf under a racehorses’ hooves. This is a new Midlands realism, precision-engineered, which seeks wonderment in unlikely places. By turns both fierce and tender, the poems in Jane Commane’s first book-length collection re-assemble the landscape, offer up an alternative national curriculum and find ghosts and strange magic in the machinery of the everyday. Between disappearances and reformations, the natural and the man-made, the lines are drawn
you might try to leave your hometown, but it will never leave you. [L200/comm.j/...]

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