{"product_id":"contemporary-british-poetry-and-the-city-9780719055942","title":"Contemporary British Poetry and the City","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThough poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories have stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban population. This book seeks to redress the balance by exploring work by a range of poets who reflect the contemporary urban scene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eMAPPING\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e2. ‘The roads to hell’\u003cbr\u003e3. Three urban tropes\u003cbr\u003e4. Writing the inner city\u003cbr\u003eLOCAL SPECIFICS\u003cbr\u003e5. ‘North of the word’ or ‘Why, this is Hull’\u003cbr\u003e6. ‘The hard lyric’: Re-registering Liverpool poetry\u003cbr\u003e7. ‘Take off your shoes in Kings Cross’: Envisioning London\u003cbr\u003e8. ‘Birmingham’s what I think with’: Roy Fisher’s cities\u003cbr\u003e9. ‘I remember when all these fields were factories’\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037288923479,"sku":"9780719055942","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719055942.jpg?v=1750935175","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contemporary-british-poetry-and-the-city-9780719055942","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}