Assembly Lines by Jane Commane Kristín Ómarsdóttir lively assortment of the work

lively assortment of the work

not only in her life but for her whole generation

Two decades ago a critic characterised Marius Kociejowski as a poet ‘whose imagination prowls the geographical boundaries of western culture’

Hölderlin translated all his writing life

Assembly Lines by Jane Commane Kristín Ómarsdóttir lively assortment of the workAssembly Lines asks what it means to be here and now, in post industrial towns and cities of the heartlands that are forever on the periphery. From schools and workplaces and lives lived in a different town, just like this, these poems take a historical perspective on the present day from the ground upwards whether the geological strata that underpins a dithering island or the ever moving turf under a racehorses hooves. This is a new Midlands realism,