Assembly Lines asks what it means to be here and now, in post-industrial towns and cities of the heartlands that are forever on the periphery. From schools and workplaces and lives lived in 'a different town, just like this', these poems take a historical perspective on the present day from the ground upwards – whether the geological strata that underpins a 'dithering island' or the ever-moving turf under a racehorses' hooves.This is a new Midlands realism, precision-engineered, which seeks wonderment in unlikely places. By turns both fierce and tender, the poems in Jane Commane's first book-length collection re-assemble the landscape, offer up an alternative national curriculum and find ghosts and strange magic in the machinery of the everyday. Between disappearances and reformations, the natural and the man-made, the lines are drawn; you might try to leave your hometown, but it will never leave you.
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Assembly Lines
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Description
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Here, once
- National Curriculum
- Sand
- On the New Bypass
- Fabrikgeist
- The Shop-floor Gospel
- Coventry is
- Midlands kids,
- Our Old Lady of the Rain
- Love Song for the Ordnance Survey
- Border Dispute
- On Discovery
- Odds On
- Seven Horse Secrets
- Dog, on First Being Named
- The hearts of everyone in this room
- Script Notes from the lost episode of The Future
- UnWeather
- Reasoning
- Three Sketches for Dreams
- Double Exposure
- Gasbagging
- Folklore
- Shrug
- How we fell in love with big data
- How the Town Lost Its Song
- The poem written to settle an old score is
- Lonely Hearts
- Landmarks
- Disturbed,
- Dresden Papers
- The Ghost Light
- Otters, Avon
- Shrapnel
- Around the Rectory
- Circa
- Homing
- Poem in which a small dog looks into the sun
- Thanks
- About the Author
- Copyright
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