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Film Review : Emily
arts Forms of Art that play fast and loose with supposed biographical truth will always attract opprobrium amongst purists. And in amongst the generally approving reviews of actor and director, Frances O’Connor’s, latest film-making venture, we find a ubiquity of knee-jerk reactions.
Poem Of The Week: On The Extinction Of The Venetian Republic By William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Yorkshire Times Weekend Edition frontpagebusinessartscarslifestylefamilytravelsportsscitechnaturefictionwhatson No cookies. No tracking. No advertising. Steve Whitaker Literary Editor @stevewh16944270 arts On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic Once did She hold the gorgeous east in fee; And was the safeguard of the west: the worth Of Venice did not fall below her birth, Venice, the eldest Child of Liberty.
Contriving To Be Alive: Brave Little Sternums - Poems from Rojava By Matt Broomfield
arts The revolution of women presently unfolding in Iran, against male oppression bolstered by strict application of the tenets of Islamic fundamentalism, marginalizes still further the interests of the much-abused Kurdish peoples, at least in terms of the public gaze. The stateless Kurds, whose numbers total near 40 millions, have been pushed around, tyrannized and displaced ever since the western powers re-wrote the colonial map in the early part of the twentieth century.
Poem Of The Week: Beauty By Hannah Hodgson
Yorkshire Times A Voice of the Free Press frontpagebusinessartscarslifestylefamilytravelsportsscitechnaturefictionwhatson No cookies. No tracking. No advertising. Steve Whitaker Literary Editor @stevewh16944270 arts Beauty Emptying a stoma bag is a transferrable skill – an icing bag of shit piped down the toilet. Summer is heavy in painful bones. Heat and urgency, my body a car aflame on a hard shoulder.
University of Leeds Poetry Centre Showcase At The Ilkley Literature Festival
arts It is a tribute to the durability of the ongoing collaboration between the renowned Leeds University Poetry Centre and the Ilkley Literature Festival that Wednesday night’s poetry performance at Ilkley’s All Saints Church did not suffer in the absence of one of its leading protagonists through illness.
Poem Of The Week: Racedown By Peter Sansom
Yorkshire Times A Voice of the Free Press frontpagebusinessartscarslifestylefamilytravelsportsscitechnaturefictionwhatson No cookies. No tracking. No advertising. Steve Whitaker Literary Editor @stevewh16944270 arts Racedown He leaps the gate, his party piece, and cuts the corner of a pathless field. She looks up, waves a trowel, and calls to her brother. Smiles. She’s twenty-five and will remember this the rest of her days, even when most of the days are lost: Coleridge as he was.
Poem Of The Week: 'I Am' By John Clare (1793-1864)
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Speaking In Tongues: Shelling Peas With My Grandmother In The Gorgiolands By Sarah Wimbush
arts Beyond Sarah Wimbush’s cross-cultural celebration of difference is a kind of accord, an acceptance of the rubbishy glue that mostly fails to bind us.
Poem of the Week: Last Illness By Ian Hamilton (1938-2001)
Yorkshire Times Weekend Edition frontpagebusinessartscarslifestylefamilytravelsportsscitechnaturefictionwhatson No cookies. No tracking. No advertising. Steve Whitaker Literary Editor @stevewh16944270 arts Last Illness (1938-2001) Entranced, you turn again and over there It is white also. Rectangular white lawns For miles, white walls between them. Snow. You close your eyes. The terrible changes. White movements in one corner of your room. Between your hands, the flowers of your quilt Are stormed.
Poem of the Week: For M., In England by Matt Broomfield
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The Swamp Ghosts Of Pripyat: Stalking The Atomic City By Markiyan Kamysh
arts First published in 2015, the currency of Ukrainian writer, Markiyan Kamysh’s, dark investigation into the aftermath of Chornobyl is immoderately underwritten by present events: the invasion of his land by Russia in February, the surrounding of the power station by its forces, and the crisis now enveloping the reactor at Zaporizhzhya are the latest instalments in a real-time dystopian narrative.
The Endless Opportunity Of Words: Lanyard By Peter Sansom
arts Acclaimed poet, teacher and publisher, Peter Sansom’s, fine new collection of poems for Carcanet fingers out into the hinterland of Nottinghamshire as though the constellation of his experience could not be separated from the network of roads, byways and redundant pit villages that formed its architecture. The neural connections of the imagination are the microcosmic equivalent of other mappings, of recalled landscapes of woods and fields, dams and playgrounds.
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