In these poems we encounter a Victorian diorama, a bar where a merchant mariner has a story he must tell, a chimeric creature - Miss Molasses - emerging from the old docks. Mancunia is - like More's Utopia - both a no-place and an attempt at the good-place.

From the author of "Drysalter" which won the Costa Poetry Award and the Forward Prize, comes his new collection of poetry.