Alice Wilson
Review: Simon Armitage’s ‘Sandette Light Vessel Automatic’ (Faber, 2019).
Their physical manifestations seem so much a part of the poetic experience that seeing them on a page, relying only on written descriptions for their original context, is almost a tease – a promise of the possibility of an even fuller experience.
The corruptability of ‘bright, young things’
Sebastian Flyte stumbling through a quad, vomiting through a window, and then taking exquisite care with his teddy bear’s hair; the fictional Riot Club...
“Boredom is counter-revolutionary”
The only comparable manifestations of the desire for social change in political change have been deeply reactionary, with the rise of right-wing, populist leaders, like Trump and Le Pen.
