Bücher von Tom Chivers

A short, practical, timely guide to the tools you need to understand the numbers we read in the news everyday - and how we often get them wrong

City State showcases the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36. From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and guerilla gardening projects to jagged urban lyrics and dark hymns to the East End, City State presents a confident, entertaining and truly diverse snapshot of the best new poetry from London.

Since 2004 Penned in the Margins has produced, commissioned and published a diverse range of literary projects, working with over one hundred and fifty writers, musicians and artists.From award winning anthologies such as Adventures in Form to critically acclaimed debut collections like Claire Trévien's The Shipwrecked House. This new anthology comprises over seventy-five poems and texts from our forty titles and celebrates the first decade of one of the UK's most innovative literary publishers.

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, peopled by ghosts of London's past as well as the distinctly modern spectres of international terrorism, spam email and the credit crunch.

An invisible mountain rises above the streets of London. At over 1,400 metres it's Britain's highest peak. This ingenious book is an account of the ascent of Mount London by writers, poets and urban cartographers, each scaling a smaller urban mountain - from Crystal Palace to Parliament Hill. Mount London is a visionary record of the vertical city.