Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation Cape Poetry allowing for both conversation and

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

From the poems written in her teens and early twenties included in her exciting debut The Memory Tray to her most recent exploration of time and grief

’ – Evan Jones

the difficulty of defining what love is

Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts <b> Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation </b> Cape Poetry allowing for both conversation andMancunia 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