{"product_id":"city-state-tom-chivers-9780955384684","title":"City State: New London Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCity State\u003c\/em\u003e showcases the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36. From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and guerilla gardening projects to jagged urban lyrics and dark hymns to the East End, \u003cem\u003eCity State\u003c\/em\u003e presents a confident, entertaining and truly diverse snapshot of the best new poetry from London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeaturing poems by: Jay Bernard, Caroline Bird, Ben Borek, Siddhartha Bose, Tom Chivers, Swithun Cooper, Alex Davies, Inua Ellams, Laura Forman, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Christopher Horton, Kirsten Irving, Annie Katchinska, Amy Key, Chris McCabe, Marianne Munk, Holly Pester, Heather Phillipson, Nick Potamitis, Imogen Robertson, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Ashna Sarkar, Jon Stone, Barnaby Tidman, Ahren Warner, James Wilkes, Steve Willey \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"We are offered London as a test case for a new diversity of means and manner, from sassy performance scripts to the solid blocks of densely disjunctive language characterised as innovative or avant-garde. [\u003cem\u003eCity State\u003c\/em\u003e proposes] a central space that is also the meeting place of many edges.\"\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Gross, \u003cem\u003ePoetry London\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eCity State\u003c\/em\u003e is [a] journey across the metropolis in rush hour: a journey that by turns bewilders, delights and throws up unpalatable truths. The anthology showcases a real range of styles, from Jacob Sam-La Rose's heartfelt verse, to Chris McCabe's complex, darkly witty observations. Though diverse, the poets featured here often seem to riff around several themes that are associated with London itself: dislocation, escapism, breathlessness.\"\u003cbr\u003eHelen Mort \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Performance poets are wedged side by side with the new crop of post-langpo practitioners and sculptors of sound; formalism and new narrative jostle for position with cut-ups, found poems and the inheritors of a confessional poetics [...] What seems to unit the best of the poets here is a quality of looking outward: they are aware of, and play with, the possibilities of language and form; they draw on\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tom Chivers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0955384680\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780955384684\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penned in the Margins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.45d","brand":"Tom Chivers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50778816381183,"sku":"9780955384684","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/city-state-tom-chivers-9780955384684","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}