Stuart Newton

Londinium Poeta; Verses from the Inner City 1980-2000 Stuart Newton 3rd edition

London has been a popular venue for a long time; very much entailing all aspects of life today, for residents/visitors/students - from the big modern engine that is a city. And the city eventually brings out an inner landscape within people; which is the first-person persona, through greater circumstance - this is the essential 'lyric form'. The poems are not free of rhythm or form, only free of rime and meter, because these do not work well with the subject at hand. London requires stronger, tougher structures.