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Articles by Angela Cleland
Poem Of The Week : Furnace Hill By William Bedford
isn’t often that we revisit old territory in our Poem of the Week strand, but William Bedford’s engaging, self-contained ‘Furnace Hill’ is taken from a collection that is constructed around a single unified theme: that of different perspectives of a working class Sheffield in the early part of the twentieth century, and bound up, indivisibly, with collective family memory.
A Room Of Notes : Azúcar By Nii Ayikwei Parkes
arts It is a rare thing to find a novel that takes neither a definitively post-colonial, nor a revisionist, approach to Afro-Caribbean history.
Poem Of The Week: Valentine By Amy Key
arts Valentine Instead of I love you here’s you : all cordial, necktie, vinyl and cola cubes – the unsubtle quirks that make my heart wheel. I’m the champagne in the saucer, you’re the bubbles spun by soap. No legacy of teacups can hold what I feel. With you, morning hatches silly, buttery and plump; lean to me, sing belly, curve, loosen. My platelets coo. How the flex of your voice lolls in this devout climate of sheets ! Here’s the nineteenth kiss in the queue.
Poem Of The Week: To Lucasta, Going To The Wars By Richard Lovelace (1617-1657)
arts To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Tell me not, sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not Honour more. The seventeenth century poet, Richard Lovelace, speaks to a vanished courtly age.
Poem Of The Week: Pineapple (Objects In A Portrait l) By Angela Cleland
Yorkshire Times Weekend Edition frontpagebusinessartscarslifestylefamilytravelsportsscitechnaturefiction No cookies. No tracking. No advertising. Steve Whitaker Literary Editor @stevewh16944270 arts Pineapple (Objects in a portrait I) In this context, the pineapple represents death, and death represents obscurity.
Leeds-Based Writers Shortlisted For Prestigious Forward Poetry Awards
arts Two Leeds-based writers have been shortlisted in different categories of the UK’s most prestigious awards for poetry. Malika Booker and Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, who have been selected, respectively, in the ‘Best Poem – Written’, and ‘The Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection’ categories, hail from opposite ends of an inclusive spectrum that aims to celebrate the work of both newcomers and established poets.
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