{"id":547,"date":"2009-07-20T11:02:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T11:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=547"},"modified":"2017-12-02T23:51:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T23:51:01","slug":"a-snapshot-from-a-moving-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/07\/a-snapshot-from-a-moving-bus\/","title":{"rendered":"Snapshot from a moving bus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of our favourite literary magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penpushermagazine.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pen Pusher<\/a> contains a review by Helen Mort of our anthology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=40\" target=\"_self\">City State: New London Poetry<\/a>. This is the verdict:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/images\/citystate_cover.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"236\" align=\"right\" \/>City State<\/em> is\u00a0[a] journey across the metropolis in rush hour: a journey that by turns bewilders, delights and throws up unpalatable truths. The anthology showcases a real range of styles, from Jacob Sam-La Rose&#8217;s heartfelt verse, to Chris McCabe&#8217;s complex, darkly witty observations. Though diverse, the poets featured here often seem to riff around several themes that are associated with London itself: dislocation, escapism, breathlessness.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\na snapshot taken from a moving bus: half-blurred, half-clear &#8230; <em>City State<\/em> celebrates London, in all its contradictory glory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>City State is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/?p=40\">online<\/a> for \u00a39.99 and at selected bookshops.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\nNew work by: Jay Bernard, Caroline Bird, Ben Borek, Siddhartha Bose, Tom Chivers, Swithun Cooper, Alex Davies, Inua Ellams, Laura Forman, Christopher Horton, Wayne Holloway-Smith, Kirsten Irving, Annie Katchinska, Amy Key, Chris McCabe, Marianne Munk, Holly Pester, Heather Phillipson, Nick Potamitis, Imogen Robertson, Jacob Sam-La Rose, Ashna Sarkar, Jon Stone, Barnaby Tidman, Ahren Warner, James Wilkes &amp; Steve Willey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of our favourite literary magazine Pen Pusher contains a review by Helen Mort of our anthology City State: New London Poetry. This is the verdict: City State is\u00a0[a] journey across the metropolis in rush hour: a journey that by turns bewilders, delights and throws up unpalatable truths. The anthology showcases a real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16267,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/16267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}