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WINNER OF THE 2011 ERIC GREGORY AWARDS
"How To Build A City" is the Crashaw Prize-winning debut collection of poetry by Tom Chivers. It is a poetic interrogation of the twenty-first century urban experience, peopled by ghosts of London's past as well as the distinctly modern spectres of international terrorism, spam email and the credit crunch.
List of contents
- Part I
- Tube
- This is yogic
- Citizen
- Rush Hour
- Tina is a Rottweiler
- Seven Varieties of Knot
- Stopping Doctor Syntax
- Queer Things in Egypt
- The Coder
- Your Name Has Been Randomly Selected
- Big Skies over Docklands
- The Trial of Margery
- Shaikh and the Fruit Pickle
- Invasion
- A Tourist's Guide to the East End
- Hasty Excise
- Fifteen Days
- How To Build A City
- Part II
- Snapshot
- Iconic
- Marpha
- Newborn
- Guthlac
- The Voyages of Ottar and Wulfstan
- On Kinder Scout
- Shatton, Kinder
- Working in Stone
- Postmark Tullamore
- Photographs
- Paramnesiac
- Thom, C and I
About the author
Tom Chivers was born in London in 1983. A writer, editor and promoter, he is Director of Penned in the Margins, Co-Director of London Word Festival and Associate Editor of Tears in the Fence. He was Poet in Residence at The Bishopsgate Institute, London. A limited edition sequence entitled The Terrors was published by Nine Arches Press in 2009. How To Build A City is his first full collection.
