How Long to Read How to Build a City

How Long Does it Take to Read How to Build a City?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 25 minutes to read How to Build a City by Tom Chivers

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

How To Build A City is the Crashaw Prize-winning debut collection of poetry by Tom Chivers. It is a poetic interrogation of the twenty-first century urban experience, drawing on the history, culture, society and topography of London. Chivers takes his cue from radical writers such as Iain Sinclair and Barry MacSweeney to create an impressionist poetry, marked by playful riddling, found texts and unusual juxtapositions. How To Build A City is peopled by ghosts of Londonâe(tm)s past as well as the distinctly modern spectres of spam email, international terrorism and the credit crunch.The title piece is a choppy, sardonic investigation of contemporary East London, a travelogue that never really leaves Liverpool Street Station. Some of the poems are personal accounts of love and loss, including âe~Thom, C & Iâe(tm), a long sequence of lyrical fragments cut from a diary written by the poetâe(tm)s mother. Other poems take the reader away from the city to the fenlands of Medieval East Anglia, apple-heavy Himalayan gardens and the bleak uplands of Northern England.How To Build A City captures the mood of a fluctuating, unstable metropolis that is continually coming to terms with multiple and conflicting identities.

How long is How to Build a City?

How to Build a City by Tom Chivers is 84 pages long, and a total of 21,336 words.

This makes it 28% the length of the average book. It also has 26% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read How to Build a City Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 56 minutes to read How to Build a City aloud.

What Reading Level is How to Build a City?

How to Build a City is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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