Exurbia

Exurbia is the name of the urban fringe at the outer limits of suburbia. These poems begin here, characterised by edges, transition and change. In the assured lyric voice for which Andy Brown's poetry has become well known, they pay meticulous attention to where and how we make our homes. The poems of the book's central sequence are elegiac versions inspired by the Argentinian poet Borges, gazing over the city's blurred outskirts at dawn and sundown, while the book's final poems reach fully ex urbia, arriving at woodlands and moors, rivers and estuaries. Here, from the edge of the shoreline, they head out to sea before making a circular migration back home.

'A contemporary goliard with an emotional range. The aural landscape that Brown creates is remarkable.' James Sutherland-Smith 'A love of language and willingness to play with music, meaning and the reader's expectations and perceptions.' Poetry Review

Andy Brown has published seven poetry collections including The Fool and the Physician; Goose Music [with John Burnside], and Fall of the Rebel Angels: Poems 1996-2006 (all Salt). Five further chapbooks include Of Science [with David Morley] (Worple). He recently edited The Writing Occurs As Song: A Kelvin Corcoran Reader (Shearsman, 2014). A selection of poems appears in Identity Parade (Bloodaxe) and prose poems in This Line Is Not For Turning (Cinnamon). He is Director of Creative Writing at Exeter University, and a tutor for the Poetry School. A Body of Work: Poetry and Medical Writing [with Dr. Corinna Wagner] is forthcoming from Bloomsbury.

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