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Mancunia by Michael Symmons Roberts <b> Poetry Book Society Autumn Recommendation </b> Cape Poetry the difficulty of defining whatMancunia is both a real and an unreal city. In part, it is rooted in Manchester, but it is an imagined city too, a fallen utopia viewed from formal tracks, as from the train in the background of De Chiricos paintings. In these poems we encounter a Victorian diorama, a bar where a merchant mariner has a story he must tell, a chimeric creature Miss Molasses emerging from the old docks. There are poems in honour of Mancunias bureaucrats: the Master of