Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation Cape Poetry From the poems written in

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

that Collected War Music is one of the great poems of our time

space and the natural world

' - Fiona McCann

Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts <b> Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation </b> Cape Poetry From the poems written inMancunia 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