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Mancunia

Af: Michael Symmons Roberts Engelsk Paperback

Mancunia

Af: Michael Symmons Roberts Engelsk Paperback
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Shortlisted for the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize
Longlisted for the 2019 Portico Prize
PBS Autumn Recommendation


Mancunia is both a real and an unreal city. In part, it is rooted in Manchester, but it is an imagined city too, a fallen utopia viewed from formal tracks, as from the train in the background of De Chirico’s paintings. In these poems we encounter a Victorian diorama, a bar where a merchant mariner has a story he must tell, a chimeric creature – Miss Molasses – emerging from the old docks. There are poems in honour of Mancunia’s bureaucrats: the Master of the Lighting of Small Objects, the Superintendent of Public Spectacles, the Co-ordinator of Misreadings. Metaphysical and lyrical, the poems in Michael Symmons Roberts’ seventh collection are concerned with why and how we ascribe value, where it resides and how it survives. Mancunia is – like More’s Utopia – both a no-place and an attempt at the good-place. It is occupied, liberated, abandoned and rebuilt. Capacious, disturbing and shape-shifting, these are poems for our changing times.

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Shortlisted for the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize
Longlisted for the 2019 Portico Prize
PBS Autumn Recommendation


Mancunia is both a real and an unreal city. In part, it is rooted in Manchester, but it is an imagined city too, a fallen utopia viewed from formal tracks, as from the train in the background of De Chirico’s paintings. In these poems we encounter a Victorian diorama, a bar where a merchant mariner has a story he must tell, a chimeric creature – Miss Molasses – emerging from the old docks. There are poems in honour of Mancunia’s bureaucrats: the Master of the Lighting of Small Objects, the Superintendent of Public Spectacles, the Co-ordinator of Misreadings. Metaphysical and lyrical, the poems in Michael Symmons Roberts’ seventh collection are concerned with why and how we ascribe value, where it resides and how it survives. Mancunia is – like More’s Utopia – both a no-place and an attempt at the good-place. It is occupied, liberated, abandoned and rebuilt. Capacious, disturbing and shape-shifting, these are poems for our changing times.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 88
ISBN-13: 9781911214298
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1911214292
Kategori: Manchester
Udg. Dato: 3 aug 2017
Længde: 9mm
Bredde: 134mm
Højde: 201mm
Forlag: Vintage Publishing
Oplagsdato: 3 aug 2017
Forfatter(e): Michael Symmons Roberts
Forfatter(e) Michael Symmons Roberts


Kategori Manchester


ISBN-13 9781911214298


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 88


Udgave


Længde 9mm


Bredde 134mm


Højde 201mm


Udg. Dato 3 aug 2017


Oplagsdato 3 aug 2017


Forlag Vintage Publishing

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