![]() ![]() Thank you to everyone for their contribution. I have found these poems extremely resonant, and I hope you will too. ![]() ![]() Other ways of thinking about, or seeing, what is happening in this present time. Nonetheless, in reading these poems, I find reflections on, and insight into, my own experiences. I am aware, as many people are, that for people and places in the world, the challenges are huge and sometimes extremely harrowing, compared to my own. Though of course everyone’s individual experience of this situation is unique. These poems were written during Lockdown and the Coronavirus pandemic, at a time when it seemed the whole country, and in fact the whole world was going through the same crisis. ( A recording of this event will be uploaded to the Festival YouTube channel in a few days.) ![]() They read alongside poets who submitted to Ledbury Poetry Festival’s online call out. The event featured a fascinating selection of Lockdown inspired poems, including poets commissioned by LPF, Naomi Shihab Nye, Sarala Estruch, Suzannah Evans, Elaine Beckett and Kim Moore. On Sunday 5 July, at 12.30pm – 1.30pm, there was a Poetry of the Lockdown event as part of Ledbury Poetry Festival Online. Thank you to everyone who has submitted Lockdown poems. ![]()
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But the violent, drunken underworld of Once Were Warriors and One Night Out Stealing makes the cityscapes of Grace and Ihimaera look positively genteel.ĭuff's formula for resolving the problems of the urban Maori likewise contrasts very sharply with the emphasis on traditional communal values in most Maori writing. Like Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace, he focuses on the debilitating effect urban life has had on Maori. ![]() Alan Duff is the enfant terrible of contemporary Maori writers. ![]() ![]() The third in the Mitch Rapp series, this was a much slower novel. ![]() The pacing also seemed really off and the final act was rushed incredibly. I also think there was a case of “too many cooks” on Irans side. I found myself struggling to finish the book. This is the book where Irene Kennedy gets captured and while it should be a book that is great reading and seeing Rapp out for revenge – I think it came a little too soon after he did the same for Anna. 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