If you’re foregoing the coast for cobbled streets, café culture and sunlight reflected from office blocks, our City Breaks package is just the one for you. Navigate your way through apocalyptic backstreets and bass-lines, rebuild the second city from its post-war rubble and rediscover London through the eyes of some of the capital’s youngest and brightest […]
If you’re foregoing the coast for cobbled streets, café culture and sunlight reflected from office blocks, our City Breaks package is just the one for you. Navigate your way through apocalyptic backstreets and bass-lines, rebuild the second city from its post-war rubble and rediscover London through the eyes of some of the capital’s youngest and brightest poets.
“None of this is the city. All of it is you.” So writes Bose in this experimental, bustling vision of London where beat-boxers are urban oracles, and ghosts of a multicultural city move through banks and brothels, kebab shops and squat parties. With dispatches from post-industrial Northern landscapes and from Bose’s hometowns of Mumbai and Kolkata, Digital Monsoon celebrates the dynamism of the urban edgeland with an invigorating rhythm.
Currently longlisted for this year’s Gordon Burn Prize, Honor Gavin’s unique interrogation of her home city of Birmingham from the bombsites of the 1940s and 1960s construction through to the decaying tower blocks of the 1980s. Three generations of one Midlands family provide the narrative for a startling, anarchic history of a city in this bold debut from a bright new literary talent.
Showcasing the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36, City State presents an entertaining and truly diverse snapshot of the best new poetry from the capital. Featuring city poetry from the likes of Innua Ellams, Amy Key, Chris McCabe, Heather Phillipson and Ahren Warner, this critically-acclaimed anthology is the perfect accompaniment for a summer of urban exploration.
