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Poetry: the Nottingham Collection includes 52 contributors, all living, born or otherwise connected, with Nottinghamshire. Catherine Byron Philip Callow Andy Croft (Smokestack Press) Duncan Glen (Akros Press) John Harvey John Lucas Jamie McKendrick Stanley Middleton Blake Morrison Graham Mort Peter Mortimer (Iron Press) Henry Normal Tom Paulin Peter Porter Peter Sansom (The North) Vernon Scannell Alan Sillitoe Matthew Welton John Hartley Williams Gregory Woods ... and others A companion volume to “Sunday Night and Monday Morning” – a collection of new fiction by Nottinghamshire writers. John Lucas has recently retired as Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He is a former poetry editor of the New Statesman and has written many critical works including England and Englishness, and, for Five Leaves, The Radical Twenties. He also runs Shoestring Press.
"...a great book to dip in to, a hymn to a place and a manifesto for poetry that is regional, democratic and plain... There are plenty of famous names here... others deserve to be better known... but the book's real delights are poems by younger poets." - Morning Star
"This is what good anthologies should be: surprising, deft and graceful. And a great cover!"
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