An Alternative Xanadu by Tallulah Howarth

An Alternative Xanadu is a poetic sequence documenting the chaotic, shifting organism that is a shared house and its inhabitants. Xanadu Housing Co-operative was born in Leeds in 2004, and here, we get a chance to look at it anew. Tallulah Howarth welcomes the uncanny and alien, with an added formalist conceit: the word count of each poem is dictated by the square foot measurements of the rooms within the house.

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