Writing Liverpool
Essays and Interviews
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
256 pages
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6 x 9
Beryl Bainbridge, Clive Barker, Terence Davies, and J. G. Farrell represent only a handful of the fascinating and provocative writers who have emerged from the Liverpool literary scene in the past seventy-five years. Published in commemoration of Liverpool’s 800th birthday in 2007 and in celebration of its status as a European City of Culture in 2008, Writing Liverpool presents a selection of essays and interviews with the filmmakers, journalists, cultural critics, and novelists who have called the city home—asking if there is a distinctive Liverpool voice, and if so, how we identify it.
Contents
Introduction: Sounding Liverpool, Michael Murphy and Deryn Rees-Jones
Chapter 1: George Garrett, Merseyside Labour and the Influence of the United States, Joseph Pridmore
Chapter 2: Liverpool as Chronotope: James Hanley’s Furys Chronicle, John Fordham
Chapter 3: Paradise Street Blues: Malcolm Lowry’s Liverpool, Chris Ackerley
Chapter 4: ‘Unhomely Moments’: the Fictions of Beryl Bainbridge, Helen Carr
Chapter 5: A Man from Elsewhere: The Liminal Presence of Liverpool in the Fiction of J.G. Farrell, Ralph Crane
Chapter 6: The Figure in the Carpet: Michael Murphy interviews Terence Davies
Chapter 7: ‘Every Time a Thing Is Possessed, It Vanishes’: The Poetry of Brian Patten, Stan Smith
Chapter 8: Finding a Rhyme for Alphabet Soup: Deryn Rees-Jones Interviews Roger McGough
Chapter 9: Rewriting the Narrative: Liverpool Women Writers, Terry Phillips
Chapter 10: Jumping Off: George Szirtes interviews Linda Grant
Chapter 11: Ramsey Campbell’s Haunted Liverpool, Andy Sawyer
Chapter 12: ‘We are a city that just likes to talk’: Julia Hallam interviews Alan BleasdaleChapter 13: Sandra Courtman
Chapter 14: ‘I’ve got a theory about Scousers’: Jimmy McGovern and Linda la Plante, Philip Smith
Chapter 15: Manners, Mores and Musicality: John Bennett interviews Willy Russell
Chapter 16: Subversive Dreamers: Liverpool Songwriting from the Beatles to the Zutons, Paul du Noyer
Chapter 17: Putting Down Roots: Dave Ward interviews Levi Tafari
Chapter 18: ‘Out of transformations’: Liverpool poetry in the 21st century, Peter Barry
Chapter 1: George Garrett, Merseyside Labour and the Influence of the United States, Joseph Pridmore
Chapter 2: Liverpool as Chronotope: James Hanley’s Furys Chronicle, John Fordham
Chapter 3: Paradise Street Blues: Malcolm Lowry’s Liverpool, Chris Ackerley
Chapter 4: ‘Unhomely Moments’: the Fictions of Beryl Bainbridge, Helen Carr
Chapter 5: A Man from Elsewhere: The Liminal Presence of Liverpool in the Fiction of J.G. Farrell, Ralph Crane
Chapter 6: The Figure in the Carpet: Michael Murphy interviews Terence Davies
Chapter 7: ‘Every Time a Thing Is Possessed, It Vanishes’: The Poetry of Brian Patten, Stan Smith
Chapter 8: Finding a Rhyme for Alphabet Soup: Deryn Rees-Jones Interviews Roger McGough
Chapter 9: Rewriting the Narrative: Liverpool Women Writers, Terry Phillips
Chapter 10: Jumping Off: George Szirtes interviews Linda Grant
Chapter 11: Ramsey Campbell’s Haunted Liverpool, Andy Sawyer
Chapter 12: ‘We are a city that just likes to talk’: Julia Hallam interviews Alan BleasdaleChapter 13: Sandra Courtman
Chapter 14: ‘I’ve got a theory about Scousers’: Jimmy McGovern and Linda la Plante, Philip Smith
Chapter 15: Manners, Mores and Musicality: John Bennett interviews Willy Russell
Chapter 16: Subversive Dreamers: Liverpool Songwriting from the Beatles to the Zutons, Paul du Noyer
Chapter 17: Putting Down Roots: Dave Ward interviews Levi Tafari
Chapter 18: ‘Out of transformations’: Liverpool poetry in the 21st century, Peter Barry
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