 Poetry of Place: London
Barnaby Rogerson
Editor: Barnaby Rogerson Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 1 903651 03 4
Area of interest: Britain
Genre: Poetry
Eland publication date: October 1, 2003
Price: £5.99
London's poetry ranges from the up-beat rap of Benjamin Zephaniah to Wordsworth's dawn sigh over the beauty of Westminster Bridge, from half-charred lines of Anglo-Saxon to yesterday's lyrics retrieved from a pub floor. Like the city itself this collection is full of grief, irony and delight. It shares no unifying historical vision and offers no single perspective over this tidal valley of mud, gravel, power and gold. Instead the unblinking eyes of the poets, touched by God, madness and desire, create a potent and highly personal corrective to political history.
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"A breastpocket volume, I shall have it to hand wherever I go in town."
Anthony Sattin, Sunday Times "the range and oddity of this anthology gives a sense of the pressure of history welling up underneath London's pavements."
Independent on Sunday "This lovely little celebration is what every Londoner should get for Christmas."
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