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Subsidence
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- Book Synopsis
- The ground gives, the walls crack and our foundations are laid bare, revealing fragments of history, myth and memory we had forgotten once were ours. Subsidence is about the post-industrial Black Country landscape, where houses sink into old mines and the present collapses into the past beneath our feet. Written just before and after the 2016 Brexit referendum, these poems are love-songs to the dialect and culture of the Black Country, odes to working-class communities, and laments for the unwanted, the strange and off-kilter.
- About The Author
- R. M. Francis is from Dudley in the West Midlands. He has written five poetry pamphlets, including Orpheus, Lamella and Fieldnotes for a Deep Topography of Dudley. His first novel, Bella, was published in 2020. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Wolverhampton and in 2019 was the inaugural David Bradshaw Writer in Residence at Oxford University.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781916312111
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Smokestack Books, (01 December 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 66
- Weight
- 85 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 197 x 9 mm
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