Assembly Lines asks what it means to be here and now, in post-industrial towns and cities of the heartlands that are forever on the periphery. From schools and workplaces and lives lived in 'a different town, just like this', these poems take a historical perspective on the present day from the ground upwards - whether the geological strata that underpins a 'dithering island' or the ever-moving turf under a racehorses' hooves.
This is a new Midlands realism, precision-engineered, which seeks wonderment in unlikely places. By turns both fierce and tender, the poems in Jane Commane's first book-length collection re-assemble the landscape, offer up an alternative national curriculum and find ghosts and strange magic in the machinery of the everyday. Between disappearances and reformations, the natural and the man-made, the lines are drawn; you might try to leave your hometown, but it will never leave you.
| ISBN: | 9781780374086 |
| Publication date: | 22nd February 2018 |
| Author: | Jane Commane |
| Publisher: | Bloodaxe Books an imprint of Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 62 pages |
| Primary Genre | Poetry |
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Assembly Lines asks what it means to be here and now, in post-industrial towns and cities of the heartlands that are forever on the periphery. From schools and workplaces and lives lived in 'a different town, just like this', these poems take a historical perspective on the present day from the ground upwards - whether the geological strata that underpins a 'dithering island' or the ever-moving turf under a racehorses' hooves.
Assembly Lines features in the following genres: Poetry, Self Help and Personal Development, Poetry by individual poets
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Assembly Lines was written by Jane Commane and published by Bloodaxe Books an imprint of Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Assembly Lines has 62 pages
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