“It wasn’t always like this”: Displacement and the Poetics of Gentrification in Ross Raisin’s Waterline (2011) and Lisa Blower’s Sitting Ducks (2016) (2025)
Journal Article
Bentley, N. (2025). “It wasn’t always like this”: Displacement and the Poetics of Gentrification in Ross Raisin’s Waterline (2011) and Lisa Blower’s Sitting Ducks (2016). English Studies, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838x.2024.2446873

This article examines narratives of gentrification with respect to post-industrial landscapes in the context of contemporary Britain. As Tom Slater (2009) has argued, underneath the rhetoric of regeneration and renewal, gentrification often involves... Read More about “It wasn’t always like this”: Displacement and the Poetics of Gentrification in Ross Raisin’s Waterline (2011) and Lisa Blower’s Sitting Ducks (2016).

Heartlands: Earth & Bones (2024)
Digital Artefact
Morgan, C., Reynolds, C., Rogerson, P., Teale, D., James-Teale, S., & Browne-Hope, P. (2024). Heartlands: Earth & Bones. [Film]

Word wound (2023)
Other
Morgan, C. (2023). Word wound. [Print]

Prose-poem

Boulevard Saint-Laurent (2023)
Other
Morgan, C. (2023). Boulevard Saint-Laurent. [Print]

Prose-poem

The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (Ed. by N. Bentley) (2023)
Book
Bentley, N., Hubble, N., Horton, E., & Tew, P. (2024). N. Bentley, N. Hubble, P. Tew, E. Horton, E. Horton (co-editor), N. Hubble (co-editor), & P. Tew (co-editor) (Eds.). The 2010s: A Decade of Contemporary British Fiction (Ed. by N. Bentley). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350268241