{"product_id":"alexandra-sequence-book-john-redmond-9781784102043","title":"The Alexandra Sequence","description":"In The Alexandra Sequence John Redmond views contemporary urban life through the suggestive prism of the 'mummers play', a seasonal British folk-theatre staged in the streets and door-to-door. The book's title takes its name from an area of Liverpool, a city shaped by its recent history of trade and migration, still recovering after a long period of decline. Experiences of urban uprootedness and social precarity shape suburban livelihoods that are 'livid with accident'. Drawing on the two central themes of the mummers play - combat and resurrection - the poems reveal both dark and light parallels between the modern neighbourhood and medieval theatre: the carnivalesque zombie-drummers marching through a local park find their mirror-image in the daily disguises of life in a housing estate, or in the masked infractions of the 2011 England Riots. Mixing narrative and lyric, Redmond paints a neighbourhood of lively, unlikely references, from Juvenal to Tommy Cooper, Brueghel to indie rock.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53079940170001,"sku":"GOR007967829","price":16.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781784102043.jpg?v=1769860783","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/alexandra-sequence-book-john-redmond-9781784102043","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}