Description
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 seeks wonderment in unlikely places. By turns both fierce and tender, the poems in Jane Commane’s first book-length collection re-assemble the landscape, offer up an alternative national curriculum and find ghosts and strange magic in the machinery of the everyday. Between disappearances and reformations, the natural and the man-made, the lines are drawn; you might try to leave your hometown, but it will never leave you.
This Is Yarrow 
Dog Poems 
Comic Poems 
Never good with horses 
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 
Clare Beaton's Bedtime Rhymes 
You Can't Take an Elephant on the Bus 
Jinx 
Is This a Poem?: What makes a poem, and how YOU can write one 
Floss