<p><em>None of this is the city. All of it is you.</em></p><p>In his follow-up to <em>Kalagora</em>, Siddhartha Bose imagines the poet as a 21st-century beatnik, a ravenous language-machine eating up the margins of the city. Dreams trigger extraordinary visions of an apocalyptic London; beat-boxers and graffiti writers as urban oracles; the ghosts of a multicultural city moving through banks and brothels, kebab shops and squat parties. Dispatches from the post-industrial landscapes of the North, and from the poet's hometowns of Mumbai and Kolkata, complete this raw and uncompromisingly modern collection.</p><p><strong>Siddhartha Bose</strong> is a poet, playwright and performer based in Hackney. His poetry has appeared in<em> Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century</em> (Bloodaxe, 2009; ISBN 9781852248383), <em>Dear World and Everyone in It: New Poetry in the UK</em> (Bloodaxe, 2013; ISBN 9781852249496) and the <em>HarperCollins Book of English Poetry </em>(HarperCollins India, 2012; ISBN 9789350290415). His first book, <em>Kalagora</em>, appeared in 2010 from Penned in the Margins (ISBN 9780956546746). Siddhartha has been featured on BBC 4 TV, BBC Radio 3 and was dubbed one of the 'ten rising stars of British poetry' by the <em>Times</em>. He is a Leverhulme Fellow in Drama at Queen Mary, University of London.</p>