Category: REVIEWS
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ELEPHANT X2 – Neil Fulwood
A TALE OF TWO ELEPHANTS: THE TROUBLES, COLUMBINE AND THE PORTRAYAL OF VIOLENCE Alan Clarke’s Elephant is a 39-minute short first broadcast on BBC2 on 25 January 1989, and arguably the starkest, most disturbing made-for-television production since Mick Jackson’s Threads five years earlier. Elephant is set during the Troubles, though no attempt is made to provide political or ideological context for…
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REVIEW: Blossom Hibbert
REVIEW: suddenly, it’s now by Blossom Hibbert (Leafe Press) There is a strand of poetry, among a certain demographic of its twenty-something practitioners, which is increasingly informed by workshops, degree courses, social media echo chambers and an almost aggressive approach to networking and self-publicity. Homogeneity ensues; a sense pervades of poetry being written to a…
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Recent Translations of Yiannis Ritsos – Alan Baker
REVIEW: Recent Translations of Yiannis Ritsos Alan Baker In Secret: Versions of Yiannis Ritsos by David Harsent (Enitharmon Press) A Broken Man in Flower: Versions of Yiannis Ritsos by David Harsent (Bloodaxe Books) Yiannis Ritsos Among His Contemporaries, ed. Marjorie Chambers (Colenso Books) Monochords by Yiannis Ritsos, tr. Paul Merchant, linocuts by Chiara Ambrosio (Prototype…