Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Dedication
- Introduction: Sounding Liverpool
- 1 George Garrett, Merseyside Labour and the Influence of the United States, Joseph Pridmore
- 2 ‘No Struggle but the Home’: James Hanley's The Furys, Patrick Williams
- 3 Paradise Street Blues: Malcolm Lowry's Liverpool, Chris Ackerley
- 4 ‘Unhomely Moments’: The Fictions of Beryl Bainbridge,
- 5 A Man from Elsewhere: The Liminal Presence of Liverpool in the Fiction of J.G. Farrell,
- 6 The Figure in the Carpet: An Interview with Terence Davies,
- 7 ‘Every Time a Thing Is Possessed, It Vanishes’: The Poetry of Brian Patten,
- 8 Finding a Rhyme for Alphabet Soup: An Interview with Roger McGough,
- 9 Rewriting the Narrative: Liverpool Women Writers,
- 10 Jumping Off: An Interview with Linda Grant,
- 11 Ramsey Campbell's Haunted Liverpool,
- 12 ‘We Are a City That Just Likes to Talk’: An Interview with Alan Bleasdale,
- 13 ‘Culture Is Ordinary’: The Legacy of the Scottie Road and Liverpool 8 Writers,
- 14 ‘I've Got a Theory about Scousers’: Jimmy McGovern and Lynda La Plante,
- 15 Manners, Mores and Musicality: An Interview with Willy Russell,
- 16 Subversive Dreamers: Liverpool Songwriting from the Beatles to the Zutons,
- 17 Putting Down Roots: An Interview with Levi Tafari,
- 18 ‘Out of Transformations’: Liverpool Poetry in the Twenty-first
Acknowledgements
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Dedication
- Introduction: Sounding Liverpool
- 1 George Garrett, Merseyside Labour and the Influence of the United States, Joseph Pridmore
- 2 ‘No Struggle but the Home’: James Hanley's The Furys, Patrick Williams
- 3 Paradise Street Blues: Malcolm Lowry's Liverpool, Chris Ackerley
- 4 ‘Unhomely Moments’: The Fictions of Beryl Bainbridge,
- 5 A Man from Elsewhere: The Liminal Presence of Liverpool in the Fiction of J.G. Farrell,
- 6 The Figure in the Carpet: An Interview with Terence Davies,
- 7 ‘Every Time a Thing Is Possessed, It Vanishes’: The Poetry of Brian Patten,
- 8 Finding a Rhyme for Alphabet Soup: An Interview with Roger McGough,
- 9 Rewriting the Narrative: Liverpool Women Writers,
- 10 Jumping Off: An Interview with Linda Grant,
- 11 Ramsey Campbell's Haunted Liverpool,
- 12 ‘We Are a City That Just Likes to Talk’: An Interview with Alan Bleasdale,
- 13 ‘Culture Is Ordinary’: The Legacy of the Scottie Road and Liverpool 8 Writers,
- 14 ‘I've Got a Theory about Scousers’: Jimmy McGovern and Lynda La Plante,
- 15 Manners, Mores and Musicality: An Interview with Willy Russell,
- 16 Subversive Dreamers: Liverpool Songwriting from the Beatles to the Zutons,
- 17 Putting Down Roots: An Interview with Levi Tafari,
- 18 ‘Out of Transformations’: Liverpool Poetry in the Twenty-first
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- Writing LiverpoolEssays and Interviews, pp. viiPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2007