Feral BoroughSet in the urban pastoral of an east London postcode, Feral City by Meryl Pugh asks what it means to be local and to call a place home, and how best to share that home with its non human inhabitants. It re imagines the wild as the feral, recasts the city as pastoral retreat and argues for the feral status of poetry as a home for ways of thinking and being that resist social and other taxonomies. Using the pastoral to critique the rigours of

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and his background as a Hispanist

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but by those women who have violently rejected the domestic and passive roles they were meant by their culture to inhabit

“As your eyes hit land you see the most golden sand you could imagine

A classic – an uncanny exploration of desire

This collection explores belonging

how words and writing can be used for good

In his powerful debut collection

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