City State: New London Poetry Caitlin Maude

City State: New London Poetry Caitlin MaudeCity State 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, City State presents a confident, entertaining and truly diverse snapshot of the best new poetry from London. Featuring poems by: Jay Bernard, Caroline Bird, Ben Borek, Siddhartha Bose, Tom Chivers, Swithun Cooper, Alex Davies,

the computer and the deposed god

Sawiris Fiction Prizes for Egyptian Literature

Nicolas Walter was a third generation anarchist activist

including The New Irish Poets (Bloodaxe

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from farmworkers to immigrant artists

A young Afro-Guyanese engineer comes to a coastal Kentish village as part of a project to shore up its crumbling sea-defences

] What seems to unit the best of the poets here is a quality of looking outward: they are aware of

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The Frogmore Papers

his poems effortlessly universal

Peter Robinson on John James