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prize-winning poets in their own right
but of the deeper-running themes
It’s a real treat discovering long lost Neruda poems that do not disappoint
a first-person subject
Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts <b> Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation </b> Martyn Crucefix prize-winning poets in their ownMancunia 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
