Ebook: God's Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners

This book is the record of a journey through the world cultures of contemporary London. More specifically, it records a series of encounters with individuals who, although otherwise very different from each other, have three things in common. They are all displaced from their homeland or their origins. They have all become, in some sense, Londoners. And they are all, in their own fields, creative artists. Drawing on many hours of recorded conversation, but distilled with a poet's eye for form and for the telling detail, God's Zoo weaves its story from many stories, each chapter gaining resonan.;Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Epigraph; God's Zoo: An Introduction; The Poet, the Anarchist, the Master of Ceremonies; Swimming in the Tigris, Greenford; Old Turk, Young Turk; Once Upon a Time in County Cork; My Problem with Brahms; Ana Maria Pacheco's Journey to the Underworld; A Metaphysical Shaggy Dog Tale; A Tree Grows in Brixton; A Ghostly Hum of Parallel Lines; Tehran in Stoke Newington; The Burning of a Thread; Three Chinese Characters; The Happiest of All Stories; The Goat that Stood upon the Bull's Spine; Jig Street; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Copyright.