London, a poetics of place, process and possibility

This book finds an association in London-based poetry that responds to dominant cultural ideas of what London means as place and process, and how poetry constructs a possibility of London. The argument is three-fold. In the first instance examining London as a mythic construct, in the second instance forming a discussion on constructs of urban space, and the third argument situates the 'poem' as an historical product. It concludes by illustrating how poetic form and language operates as a subversive system of communication responding to the city.