Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation Cape Poetry that Collected War Music is

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

the abridged version)' – Dominic Luxford

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

With this knowledge of grief

’ – Evan Jones

Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts <b> Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation </b> Cape Poetry that Collected War Music isMancunia 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