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Book SynopsisAnna Robinson's first full collection, "The Finders of London", introduces a compelling new voice in poetry. Her poems, set in and around the centre of London, depict a capital both familiar and alien, peopled with figures contemporary and historical: from the residents of present-day Lambeth, to the victims of Jack the Ripper, and to those whose spirits are still embedded in the reflections of a plate-glass office window, in the earth beneath the author's feet, or in the flotsam washed up on the Thames beach. It's these working-class voices that lend strength to Robinson's own, and with it she mythologizes, catalogues and searches for the anima and animus of this multi-natured city. The river Thames is never far away, its foreshore the setting for the long poem that provides the book's title: "The Finders of London", part-chronicle, part-modern fairytale, caked in mud, it challenges the morality of its Victorian counterparts while telling a simple and elegant tale of the toshers and the river they live and work under.
Trade ReviewRobinson's poetry achieves perfectly the public world lodged in the lyricalA" (Wayne Burrows, Poetry London)
Table of ContentsLenten Moon What is more beautiful than a road? (Georges Sand) Charlie's Dead GoScratchYerself - (i.m. Aunt Beat) THE PANSY POEMS Pansy Neilson's Magnificent Renovations Show Pansies On The Landing Ghosting The Flats Egg Moon As a Foot Passenger On the Woolwich Ferry (after Rabelais) Operation at St Thomas' Hospital for Poor Women. Cross Bones - Southwark Tawkin' too wAnnie - Sundee tee time. Milk Moon Portraits Of Women - East London - 1888 THE FINDERS OF LONDON Mud Lark Tosher Pure-Finders Flower Moon Oshun's grand-daughter is lost in North Lambeth The Scavenger's Daughter Night-Stick Fracture The Search Blue Moon Chimney The Gate Keeper Objects of Daily Use Learning to Listen on the Thames Beach (For Mimi) Lower Marsh Speaks From Paul's Wharf Stairs Hay Moon Agnus
