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The poems in Our England are nostalgic, but also a challenge to nostalgia with the belief that the future can be rewritten. If these poems mean anything, McGuire hopes they evoke the quiet resilience and solidarity of a country that still has the capacity to remake itself, and whose energy won’t be found in drunken Facebook hate-filled nostalgia, but in the neighbours who are right in front of our eyes. There are also 10 accompanying colour drawings from Martin Gollan, evoking and extending the themes of the poems.
The poems in Our England are nostalgic, but also a challenge to nostalgia with the belief that the future can be rewritten. If these poems mean anything, McGuire hopes they evoke the quiet resilience and solidarity of a country that still has the capacity to remake itself, and whose energy won’t be found in drunken Facebook hate-filled nostalgia, but in the neighbours who are right in front of our eyes. There are also 10 accompanying colour drawings from Martin Gollan, evoking and extending the themes of the poems.