Feral Borough Format:Paperback

Feral Borough Format:PaperbackSet 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

Kehoe’s short lyrics are redolent of hopeful motorways

and her first novel

this essay is a critique on the intellectual hold of destructive

and distinguished by its sensitivity to subtleties of language and dialogue

negotiating or nudging the meanings into alternative senses

the secret of life itself

Margiad Evans

Her words are a disruption of comfort

” — Bill Berkson

and lay bare the realities of life at the sharpest edges of society

Soon enough a race begins

the poems then offer soft imperatives of harmony