London, a poetics of place, process and possibility

This book finds an association in London-based poetry that responds to dominant cultural ideas of what London means as place and process, and how poetry constructs a possibility of London. The argument is three-fold. In the first instance examining London as a mythic construct, in the second instance forming a discussion on constructs of urban space, and the third argument situates the 'poem' as an historical product. It concludes by illustrating how poetic form and language operates as a subversive system of communication responding to the city.

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Molly Regatta Dixon is a poet and visuals engineer from Mersea Island in Essex and now lives on her barge on the London waterways. She studied Contemporary Literature and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London where she was an active member of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre.