Ten Poems about Cities

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Most of us live in cities, and there is a rich tradition of poems about their tireless hustle and bustle. In Jessica Mookherjee’s lively selection, we find poems that explore the hectic rhythms of day-to-day life in a city, as well as the rather more mysterious character of a city at night – a place where streetlights and “drunken rooftops” create a dreamscape in which anything might happen.
Ever present is the sense that a city never stops:

“All afternoon labouring geese fly over the city. Cars hoot,sirens fugue. Beneath bank towers, a statue shifts. A man,blue clown, blows two-note whistles for a living.”
from ‘Commerce, Madrid, 2012’ by Carola Luther

This mini-anthology transports us to cities real and imagined in a delightful kaleidoscope that shimmers and shifts at each rereading.

Poems by Suzannah Evans, Andrew Fusek-Peters, Kapka Kassabova, Carola Luther, John McCullough, Jessica Mookherjee, Meryl Pugh, Roger Robinson, James Tate and Sara Teasdale.

Cover illustration by Clare Curtis.

Includes one poetry pamphlet, envelope and co-ordinating bookmark with space for your own personal message.

ISBN: 9781913627379
Author: MOOKHERJEE, JESSICA
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01/06/2024
RRP: $14.99
Pages: 20
Dimension: 210mm X 137mm
Imprint: Candlestick Press