Sometimes a set of poems seem to emerge with an almost all-consuming inevitability. One such was and is Crow. Another must have been The Ballads of Kukutis on its first appearance in Lituania in 1977; or that’s how it might seem seen though Laima Vincé’s new translation and published by Arc. Both Crow and Kukutis […]
Archive | October, 2011
“Colm Tóibín in Conversation” with Alan Hollinghurst, October 10th 2011
Acclaimed novelist and journalist Colm Tóibín, newly appointed as Professor of Creative Writing at The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing, hosts the first in a series of high-profile public events. The conversations cover topics of current literary and cultural interest. In this first event Colm Tóibín welcomes English novelist, and winner of the […]
Soweto Kinch, Submotion Orchestra: Marsden Jazz Festival
When Soweto Kinch moved into his ‘free-styling’ rap, he elicited words from the audience that came from the letters of ‘Marsden’. The Marsden audience, part of the arc of Pennine post hippydom that runs from Hebden Bridge, through Todmorden, and Marsden to Mossley, initially gave him ‘melifluous’, ‘artisanal’, ‘sheep’, ‘dung’, ‘energy’ and, finally, ‘Northern’. Kinch, […]