Unrelated Incidents

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Unrelated Incidents is a series of poems by Tom Leonard. Written in 1976, One of the better-known of this series is "The Six o'clock News".

The Six o'clock news

The poem "The Six o'clock News" tackles working-class alienation, using the device of a Glaswegian speaking as a BBC newsreader, with what is certainly not a received pronunciation accent. John Corbett, writing on the Association for Scottish Literary Studies website, asserts that "The whole point of [this poem] (in which the six o’clock news is read in a Glasgow accent) is not to burlesque the rules of decorum, but, by inverting them, to challenge head-on the social structures and attitudes which maintain them."[1]

References

  1. ↑ Corbett, John (2000, updated 2010). "Literary Language and Scottish Identity". Association for Scottish Literary Studies. Retrieved September 26, 2012. 

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Poems from
Other Cultures
Cluster 1
Cluster 2
Seamus Heaney
  • "Storm on the Island"
  • "Perch"
  • "Blackberry-Pickin]"
  • "Death of a Naturalist"
  • "Digging"
  • "Mid-Term Break"
  • "Follower"
  • "At a Potato Digging"
Gillian Clarke
Carol Ann Duffy
Simon Armitage
  • "Mother, any distance greater than a single span"
  • "My father thought it..."
  • "Homecoming"
  • "November"
  • "Kid"
  • "Those bastards in their mansions"
  • "I've made out a will; I'm leaving myself"
  • "Hitcher"
Pre-1914
Prose
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