Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation Cape Poetry Like the original In Person:

Like the original In Person: 30 Poets

allowing for both conversation and collision: An epistolary paean to fellow Ulsterman Seamus Heaney borrows a Latin quotation from a letter by Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton to William Wordsworth

Here are stories of experience and imagination – of a man’s clothes taking on a life of their own

that Collected War Music is one of the great poems of our time

With this knowledge of grief

Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts <b> Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation </b> Cape Poetry Like the original In Person:Mancunia is both a real and an unreal city. In part, it is rooted in Manchester, but it is an imagined city too, a fallen utopia viewed from formal tracks, as from the train in the background of De Chiricos paintings. In these poems we encounter a Victorian diorama, a bar where a merchant mariner has a story he must tell, a chimeric creature Miss Molasses emerging from the old docks. There are poems in honour of Mancunias bureaucrats: the Master of