'Cities are built with language' | Curio

'Cities are built with language'

9 mins | Oct 22, 2017

How poetry feeds on urban life. Can poetry actually help us make cities better? The excitement and frustrations of city life have inspired poets from 18th-century Grub Street to the 50s Beats and modern-day rappers. Rosie Spinks explores the connection between poetry and cities.

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