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- Book Synopsis
- Welcome poets, polemicists and disbelieving masses! New pants for old! The 2015 General Election made manifest changes that have been taking place in UK politics this century. Previous certainties like Labour's Scottish hegemony are no more. Older patterns like the Conservative dominance of England have reasserted themselves. The idea of the UK as a single country has been replaced by a plurality of national, regional, generational and class identities.The week after the election Bill Herbert and Andy Jackson decided to chart the responses of those unacknowledged legislators of the world - poets - to the new dispensation. For the first 100 days of the new government they published a poem a day on their New Boots and Pantisocracies blog, recording life under the new unrealpolitik. Now it is a book by over a hundred of the most compelling and distinguished poets of our time, including Sean O'Brien, Sheenagh Pugh, Daljit Nagra, Claudia Daventry, Ian Duhig, Michael Rosen, Polly Clark, Ian McMillan, George Szirtes and Malika Booker.New Boots and Pantisocracies takes its name from the idealistic plans of Coleridge and Southey for a social utopia or 'pantisocracy', and from Ian Dury's iconic first album, with its ironic and melancholy celebration of working class identity on the eve of the Thatcherite revanche. It is a book of poems and polemics, contraries and resistances, appalled but not entirely despairing.
- About The Author
- WN (Bill) Herbert is a Dundonian poet based in the North-East of England. He has published eight collections with Bloodaxe, from Forked Tongue (1994) to The Wreck of the Fathership (2020). Edited books include Strong Words: modern poets on modern poetry (with Matthew Hollis), Jade Ladder: Contemporary Chinese Poetry (with Yang Lian) and New Boots and Pantisocracies (with Andy Jackson). He has been a Literary Fellow for the Wordsworth Trust, a Professor of Poetry at Newcastle University, and the first Makar of Dundee.
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- ISBN
- 9780993454752
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Smokestack Books, (01 October 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 181
- Weight
- 205 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 131 x 15 mm
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