Moving from the melodic to the political
Jinx asks about the equivocal nature of artifice
The later poems reflect on the collapse of 1970s' hopes of decolonisation after the widespread defeat of the left through self-inflicted injuries and the new world order of resurgent American power under Ronald Reagan
Tony Harrison’s defences are ‘broken down / on nine or ten Newcastle Brown’ in his ‘Newcastle Is Peru’ (1969)
but the dark-haired ‘Alisa’ of Soviet illustrated children’s stories
Winter 2017 Bulletin Lorraine Mariner Moving from the melodic toIt was blacker and blacker in the wood. The chalk path led into such darkness My heart almost failed me, but I kept going. Sasha Dugdale, Joy For our Winter 2017 Bulletin, we have been busy producing a new, full colour redesign and introducing a guest selector slot! The PBS Choice for this quarter is Sasha Dugdale's excellent Joy, alongside Recommendations of Paul Deaton's A Watchful Astronomy, Tim Dooey's Weemoed, Anne Michaels' All We Saw and Ahren