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This is not your final form / edited by Richard O'Brien and Emma Wright ; illustrated by Emma Wright.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- The Emma Press Poetry Anthologies Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--21st century.
- English poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 65 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Birmingham, England : The Emma Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- This Is Not Your Final Form showcases the best of Birmingham: a rich, varied and vibrant city capable of inspiring a range of contemporary poetic responses. This anthology, bringing together entries from the inaugural Verve Poetry Festival Competition, depicts a second city which is no longer content to play second fiddle. Poets take on the area's musical past, its complex industrial history, its unique blend of architectural styles and the experiences of its many immigrant communities. Writers celebrate the lives of significant figures, from Matthew Boulton to Benjamin Zephaniah, and ordinary Brummies alike. Ranging from spoken word-inspired pieces to more traditional styles, much of the work collected here channels the energy and the political anger that runs like a seam through centuries of Birmingham history. Taken together, This Is Not Your Final Form is a tough, unsentimental love letter to the Midlands metropolis, which finds beauty in concrete and unity in contradiction.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Other books from the Emma Press
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- GREGORY LEADBETTER
- Beorma
- RISHI DASTIDAR
- The middle is where the future started
- CHERYL PEARSON
- Rainbows under Birmingham
- MARGARET ADKINS
- Duddeston Viaduct, 1930
- BERNADETTE LYNCH
- Washday
- DAVID CLARKE
- To a Mellotron
- MAYA STOKES (AGED 14)
- A Storybook City
- BERNARD DAVIS
- My friend the heron
- NATALIE BURDETT
- Crow Flight (Oldbury)
- SHAUN HAND
- Birmingham: An Odyssey in 21 Images
- JOHN MCGHEE
- Versioning
- Notes on the VERVE competition winners
- SUSANNAH DICKEY (FIRST PRIZE)
- The Second Law of Thermodynamics
- JENNA CLAKE (SECOND PRIZE)
- CBSO
- GILL LEARNER (THIRD PRIZE)
- The Rowan Tree
- TESSA FOLEY (FOURTH PRIZE)
- Hero
- ALI-NOOR SALAM (AGED 8)
- Hot Top
- ROB WALTON
- Birmingham - some advice
- LOUISE VALE
- The Cake
- JILL MUNRO
- Never in a rain of pig's pudding
- KIBRIYA MEHRBAN
- 'More canals than Venice!'
- NICK KNIBB
- Bring Back King Kong
- RACHAEL NICHOLAS
- Floozie
- HELEN REHMAN
- Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm Tree?
- KEITH CHANDLER
- Return of the King
- NELLIE COLE
- Wild West Midlands
- NUSAYBA NABEEL (AGED 10)
- My City
- CHARLOTTE WETTON
- January
- ROZ GODDARD
- Summertime
- HEATHER FRECKLETON
- In the Bullring: Afterimage of my Parents
- JENNIFER EDWARDS
- Postcards
- CAROLE BROMLEY
- One more frozen orange juice
- REZA ARABPOUR
- Another Day in a Brummie Life
- VICTORIA GATEHOUSE
- Toll Plaza Queen
- About the Poets
- About the Editors
- About the Verve Competition Judge
- The Emma Press
- Also From The Emma Press.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781910139752
- 1910139750
- OCLC:
- 1061099245
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