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In the Planetary Ballet | Landeg White

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In the Planetary Ballet. In the Planetary Ballet. Posted on July 15, 2015 in New Poems. Tycho Brahe’s model of the universe. Had all the planets (except earth). Revolving round the sun, while the sun,. With its planets in tow, revolved. Around earth. So he kept the Jesuites. Happy, and preserved his name. As a scientist. But this was no time-server,. Having his cake and eating it, rather. A meticulous Dane, keeping accurate. Measurements of the universe,. Reckoning it mere common-sense.

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Books – Poetry | Landeg White

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Books – Poetry. Living in the Delta. Living in the Delta. White addresses fundamental human issues unflinchingly. Signed copies of this book can be purchased directly from the author. Landeg White’s latest collection, illustrated by António Bandeira Araújo, makes free use of the epistolary form to range widely in subject matter and style. The letters are interspersed with shorter poems, equally broad thematically, while demonstrating his mastery of lyric forms. Where the Angolans are Playing Football.

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Books – Fiction | Landeg White

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Books – Fiction. An epic, yet intensely personal story of one young woman’s search for identity, revealing that ancestry is not always as it seems. The novel is a rich, informative, sometimes alarming and often moving account … generous and perceptive … post-post colonial in the ironies and sympathies it has available for almost all its characters. A novel of confidence and subtlety. This book is now available as a free download (PDF and Kindle). Download for free (pdf). Download for free (kindle). He ha...

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Anxiety of Influence | Landeg White

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Posted on July 31, 2015 in New Poems. I was 17 when, blessed suddenly with gold,. I happened in the sixth form library. On Blunden’s Poems of Wilfred Owen. He had sat in this self-same dormitory,. Engulfed in the same masturbatory rebellions,. The same teen-age passion. For Keats, the same hatred of Birkenhead. Institute for the Sons of Artisans. What did I learn? That one of the names. On the school’s War Memorial, poppied annually. To reproach us, had a voice. That technique is subliminal, a device.

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About | Landeg White

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Landeg White was born in South Wales in 1940, and named for his maternal grandfather. A preacher’s son, he spent his childhood in Cheshire, Glasgow and Hertfordshire before graduating from Liverpool University. His wife, Maria Alice, whom he met in Malawi is a professional pre-school teacher, and they have two grown-up sons. The younger works in the marketing services industry. The elder designed this web site. Books – African Studies. Books – Caribbean Studies. Books – Fiction. Books – Poetry.

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Essays | Landeg White

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Review of Chenjeerai Hove,. Baobab Books (Harare, 1988) & Isheunesu Valentine Mazorodze,. Silent Journey From the East. Silent Journey From the East. Limping hearts leapt sky-wards. And sore throats blackened. As thunder boomed roared. To cleanse defiled tribes. Licking bare soles of torn souls. Seeking to pay in lead. The debt owed by so few to multitudes. But there is another Zimbabwean English used in this literature of violence, represented again by Chenjerai Hove in this extract from. They did &#821...

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Funk Rap | Landeg White

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Posted on July 15, 2015 in New Poems. So I read,. A sense of futility. The damned souls of Gitmo. Noriega, narcokleptic bum,. I fought the law. Funk rock classic at Arctic volume,. Surrendered to his supplier. It’s good to know Michael Jackson,. Geldorf, Boy George, Bono and Jagger,. Are always available to torture. America’s enemies into line. So might the inquisition’s Torquemada. Have finally convinced the Jews. Not with wheel, rack and thumbscrew. Books – African Studies. Books – Fiction.

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Tattoo | Landeg White

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Posted on July 15, 2015 in New Poems. To the sound of Greek bagpipes). Today, the Greek Government. Executed by firing squad. 1000 pensioners, along. With 2000 workers, as part. Of a package of financial. Reforms, to reassure. The markets and permit. The Troika to release one. More tranche of the bail-out. How one feels for the victims. In all this, the bankers. Of bonuses, the markets. Bearish, nervous as. Kittens, the green back,. The pound, the tsunami-. Floating yen, scurrying. Vaults and tax-havens,.

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The Bishop’s Move | Landeg White

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The Bishop’s Move. The Bishop’s Move. Posted on July 21, 2015 in Essays. Review of Nick Groom (ed),. Percy’s “Reliques of Ancient English Poetry. 3 vols (Routledge,Thoemmes Press, 1996). In his “Essay Supplementary to the Preface” (. 1815), Wordsworth sets in opposition two anthologies of English poetry. First,. Johnson’s English Poets. That uniform edition of male, public-school and university educated or privately tutored poets which began to appear in 1779, and secondly Bishop Thomas Percy’s. Somethin...