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Bunker: Stories and Poems from a Nuclear Age
edited by Daniel Cordle
and Sarah Jackson
ISBN: 9781915434234
Format: Paperback, 98 pages,
Available (Published: September 2024)
£10.00
Book details
Hidden away in a patch of wasteland in suburban Nottingham, a Cold War relic lies abandoned. This is Regional Seat of Government 3, a nuclear bunker from which a Regional Commissioner would have presided over a society and landscape devastated by nuclear war. In 2024 the bunker opened its steel doors to a group of writers and experts, giving them privileged access to this strange and haunting space before the developers moved in. Bunker is the outcome of that visit: stories and poems that wander the windowless corridors and offices, kitchens and canteens, dormitories and washrooms of a place from a terrible alternate reality. Breathing life into the dead rooms and peopling them with figures from past and present, it is both a memorial to a key moment in history and a reflection on a twenty-first century world with its own existential fears: new nuclear threats, environmental catastrophe and social dislocation.
Contributors: Zayneb Allak – Hannah Cooper-Smithson – Anthony Cropper – Ailbhe Darcy – Jay Gao – Delphine Grass – Jonathan Hogg – Helena Hunter – Martine Hamilton Knight – Phil Leonard – Jon McGregor – Maria Gil Ulldemolins
About the Author
Daniel Cordle is a writer and researcher. With a background in higher education and in work with cultural and heritage organisations, he is an internationally renowned expert on the culture and history of the nuclear age, on which he has published extensively. Sarah Jackson is a writer, curator and critic. Winner of the Seamus Heaney Prize for Poetry and BBC New Generation Thinker, she is currently a Vice Chancellor's Fellow at Northumbria University.
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