Shortlisted for the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize Longlisted for the 2019
Portico Prize PBS Autumn Recommendation Mancunia 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 Chirico's 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 Mancunia's bureaucrats: the Master of the Lighting of
Small Objects, the Superintendent of Public Spectacles, the
Co-ordinator of Misreadings. Metaphysical and lyrical, the poems in
Michael Symmons Roberts' seventh collection are concerned with why
and how we ascribe value, where it resides and how it survives.
Mancunia is - like More's Utopia - both a no-place and an attempt
at the good-place. It is occupied, liberated, abandoned and
rebuilt. Capacious, disturbing and shape-shifting, these are poems
for our changing times.
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