Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation Cape Poetry Here are stories of experience

Here are stories of experience and imagination – of a man’s clothes taking on a life of their own

space and the natural world

With this knowledge of grief

' - Fiona McCann

Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts <b> Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation </b> Cape Poetry Here are stories of experienceMancunia is both a real and an unreal city. In part, it is rooted in Manchester, but it is an imagined city too, a fallen utopia viewed from formal tracks, as from the train in the background of De Chiricos paintings. In these poems we encounter a Victorian diorama, a bar where a merchant mariner has a story he must tell, a chimeric creature Miss Molasses emerging from the old docks. There are poems in honour of Mancunias bureaucrats: the Master of