Assembly Lines

Assembly Lines asks what it means to be here and now, in post—industrial towns and cities of the heartlands that are forever on the periphery. From schools and workplaces and lives lived in 'a different town, just like this', these poems take a historical perspective on the present day from the ground upwards — whether the geological strata that underpins a 'dithering island' or the ever—moving turf under a racehorses' hooves. This is a new Midlands realism, precision—engineered, which seek...