Tuesday, July 29, 2008

News at Eleven: [Mick] Imlah is alive to contradictions,

and the poems move back and forth, unwilling to level judgments.

In "Drink v Drugs", the speaker, worse the wear for alcohol and "worked up about some other matter", apprehends a stoned kid who seems to be smashing up a phone box. The youth dares the concerned narrator to ring the police, before doing it himself and saying he's been assaulted by a drunk man.

from Telegraph: Macbeth as Othello, and other players

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