Description
This Is Not Your Final Form showcases the best of Birmingham: a rich, varied and vibrant city capable of inspiring a range of contemporary poetic responses. This anthology, bringing together entries from the inaugural Verve Poetry Festival Competition, depicts a second city which is no longer content to play second fiddle. Poets take on the area’s musical past, its complex industrial history, its unique blend of architectural styles and the experiences of its many immigrant communities. Writers celebrate the lives of significant figures, from Matthew Boulton to Benjamin Zephaniah, and ordinary Brummies alike. Ranging from spoken word-inspired pieces to more traditional styles, much of the work collected here channels the energy and the political anger that runs like a seam through centuries of Birmingham history. Taken together, This Is Not Your Final Form is a tough, unsentimental love letter to the Midlands metropolis, which finds beauty in concrete and unity in contradiction.
Emma was on the original working group at the formation of VERVE and has appeared every year either running our Children’s Festival, running workshops, hosting events and appearing at showcases for her excellent Birmingham based press Emma Press. She’s wonderful to work with and lovely to have involved!
Price £10.00
ISBN: 9781910139608
Date: 16th Feb 2017
Format: Paperback
Extent: 80 pp
POETRY Anthology
