Bloodaxe Books | Jane Commane live at Ledbury @BloodaxeBooks | Uploaded September 2018 | Updated October 2024, 6 minutes ago.
Jane Commane reads and introduces eight poems from her Bloodaxe debut collection, Assembly Lines (2018), at Ledbury Poetry Festival on 1st July 2018, when she shared the stage in the town’s Burgage Hall with fellow Midlander poet Liz Berry. Assembly 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. This is a new Midlands realism, precision-engineered, which seeks wonderment in unlikely places. By turns both fierce and tender, the poems in Jane Commane’s first book-length collection re-assemble the landscape, offer up an alternative national curriculum and find ghosts and strange magic in the machinery of the everyday. Between disappearances and reformations, the natural and the man-made, the lines are drawn; you might try to leave your hometown, but it will never leave you. Filmed by Neil Astley, she reads these poems in the video: ‘Midlands kids’, ‘History’ from ’National Curriculum’, ‘Sand’, ‘The Shop-floor Gospel’, ‘UnWeather’, ‘Shrug’, ‘Dog, on First Being Named’ and ‘Coventry is’. For more details see bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/assembly-lines-1166
Jane Commane reads and introduces eight poems from her Bloodaxe debut collection, Assembly Lines (2018), at Ledbury Poetry Festival on 1st July 2018, when she shared the stage in the town’s Burgage Hall with fellow Midlander poet Liz Berry. Assembly 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. This is a new Midlands realism, precision-engineered, which seeks wonderment in unlikely places. By turns both fierce and tender, the poems in Jane Commane’s first book-length collection re-assemble the landscape, offer up an alternative national curriculum and find ghosts and strange magic in the machinery of the everyday. Between disappearances and reformations, the natural and the man-made, the lines are drawn; you might try to leave your hometown, but it will never leave you. Filmed by Neil Astley, she reads these poems in the video: ‘Midlands kids’, ‘History’ from ’National Curriculum’, ‘Sand’, ‘The Shop-floor Gospel’, ‘UnWeather’, ‘Shrug’, ‘Dog, on First Being Named’ and ‘Coventry is’. For more details see bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/assembly-lines-1166
