Writing Liverpool : Essays and Interviews.

Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Sounding Liverpool -- 1: George Garrett, Merseyside Labour and the Influence of the United States -- 2: 'No Struggle but the Home': James Hanley's The Furys -- 3: Paradise Street Blues: Malcolm Lowry's Liverpool -- 4: 'Unhomely Moments': The Fictions of Beryl Bainbridge -- 5: A Man from Elsewhere: The Liminal Presence of Liverpool in the Fiction of J.G. Farrell -- 6: The Figure in the Carpet: An Interview with Terence Davies -- 7: 'Every Time a Thing Is Possessed, It Vanishes': The Poetry of Brian Patten -- 8: Finding a Rhyme for Alphabet Soup: An Interview with Roger McGough -- 9: Rewriting the Narrative: Liverpool Women Writers -- 10: Jumping Off: An Interview with Linda Grant -- 11: Ramsey Campbell's Haunted Liverpool -- 12: 'We Are a City That Just Likes to Talk': An Interview with Alan Bleasdale -- 13: 'Culture Is Ordinary': The Legacy of the Scottie Road and Liverpool 8 Writers -- 14: 'I've Got a Theory about Scousers': Jimmy McGovern and Lynda La Plante -- 15: Manners, Mores and Musicality: An Interview with Willy Russell -- 16: Subversive Dreamers: Liverpool Songwriting Subversive Dreamers: Liverpool Songwriting -- 17: Putting Down Roots: An Interview with Levi Tafari -- 18: 'Out of Transformations': Liverpool Poetry in the Twenty-first Century.