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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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49524991557905,"sku":"GOR009006457","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50200593006865,"sku":"GOR010971729","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52715471143185,"sku":"NGR9781780374086","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53006261977361,"sku":"NLS9781780374086","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1780374089.jpg?v=1750897624"},{"product_id":"to-coventry-by-sun-book-jane-commane-9781913437336","title":"To Coventry by Sun","description":"With contributions from: Romalyn Ante, Raef Boylan, Amanda Dalton, Olga Dermott-Bond, Petra Ganglbauer, Aysar Ghassan, Emilie Lauren Jones Dušica Karaić Victoria Kennefick, Sun Lei, Olga Igumnova Lawson, Marcin Niewirowicz, Andrea Mbarushimana, Susan MacNeil, David Morley #narrandobo: Leonardo Bianconi, Leo Merati \u0026amp; Giulia Quadrelli, Peter Raynard, Sarah Ammajou Rehm, Antony Owen, Tanya Shirley, Mihajlo žilović.  Coventry was the first city in the world to formally ‘twin’ itself with another when it twinned with Volgograd in Russia in the midst of the Second World War in 1944. This extraordinary act of civic, international friendship was only the beginning of Coventry’s unique twin-city story. Throughout the twentieth century, Coventry continued to twin with other cities, making connection and friendship with a total of twenty-six cities around the world.  The Twin Cities of Friendship postcard project, commissioned for BBC Contains Strong Language festival of poetry and a part of Coventry City of Culture 2021, explored the legacy of this by connecting twenty poets – ten from Coventry and the local region and ten from Coventry’s Twin Cities. Throughout the summer of 2021, postcards designed by Coventry artists criss-crossed the globe, bearing messages and questions – What is the weather like where you are? Who are your city’s notable figures? What are your favourite buildings or places? Finally, we asked each poet to write a poem that resulted from their exchange and to share these poems as an act of friendship with each other and their cities.   This book, To Coventry by Sun, brings together all the poems and artwork commissioned as part of this international project. 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Maps \u0026amp; Legends is a new anthology celebrating the best of Nine Arches Press over the past five years.  Plotting points from urban backwaters to wild imagined spaces, editor Jo Bell guides us through those shadow places poetry inhabits, places that fall well and truly off the map.  Featuring poems from Claire Crowther, David Morley , Luke Kennard, Matt Merritt, Maria Taylor, Angela France, Daniel Sluman, Alistair Noon, Tony Williams, David Hart and more.  Jo Bell is the former director of National Poetry Day, and is now the UK's Canal Laureate. She has been a Glastonbury Poet in Residence, and programmed the Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2011. She has also appeared on BBC Radio 2 and 4, and at the Hay and Cheltenham Festivals. 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