Acquired for Development By...
A Hackney Anthology
Published on 26. April 2012
288 pages
978-0-9571693-1-9 (ISBN)
Description
Acquired for Development By is an anthology of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by 25 writers with 25 different perspectives on a rapidly changing area of London. From gentification to supermarket sandwiches, Turkish Alevism to inner city river living, middle-class civil war to pylon romance, this collection captures an alternative, insightful and sometimes bizarre take on modern London life. Featuring work by Lee Rourke, Molly Naylor, Siddartha Bose, Gavin James Bower, Laura Oldfield Ford, Nell Frizzell, Tim Burrows and many more.
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Introduction
- I - Lea Valley / Regent's Canal / Hackney Marshes
- A Dream Life of Hackney Marshes
- Fibre Optic Tree
- Rivers of Change
- http://
- II - Dalston
- Dalston Lane
- Dalston Kittiwakes
- The Battle of Kingsland Road
- Tara
- Neo-Noir Hackney Haikus
- Alevism and Hackney
- III - Stoke Newington / Stamford Hill
- Pavel's Smokes + Fortune
- Tautologies
- 2061
- IV - Clapton
- Demolition: Clapton Park Estate 1993
- A Hackney Triptych
- Electric Blue
- Hackney Numbers
- V - Hackney Central
- The Finest Store
- 'Ackney
- Suki's Cherry
- All Gone
- VI - Homerton / Hackney Wick
- Foucault Over the Garden Fence
- Dark Island: Wallis Road 09.03.11
- Paper Corpse
- Wicklove
- Acknowledgments
- Biographical Notes
- Copyright
