ISBN: 971909404427. Full collection 52 pages.
London is a city that can inspire, infuriate, provide and pummel. For a migrant coming to terms with living in this city the experience is complex — not simply love and hate but a strange, difficult-to-define ambivalence. This collection explores the diversity of encounter that this great twenty-first-century city has to offer, reflected both in the content of the poems and the variety of forms used. Mark Isherwood writes both poetry and fiction; originally from Dorset, he now lives in London.
With the gimlet eye of the observer Mark Isherwood lets the reader experience all the instruments that make up the symphony of his London as if it were the music of Vaughan Williams. Through the interplay of sound and light, the chiaroscuro of the many streets he walks us through, he brings the city of perpetual motion to life through the eyes of the migrant.
Geraldine Mills
