Poem of everyone's soul sheet music10/31/2023 ![]() Photograph: Brian Lanker 2 January Clueless ![]() Decades of chain smoking are invested in her smoky chuckle, as she asks: “Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise?” Like a fine wine, it matured over the years, as this glorious late outing demonstrates. But I digress…Ī literary calendar for January 2021 1 January Maya Angelou: Still I RiseĪngelou published this totemic poem in 1978 and continued to perform it into her 80s. I’m not just being flippant: if you want to fully understand poet Alice Oswald’s relationship with water (28 January), you need to read her book-length, source-to-sea portrait of a river, Dart.īut other entries, such as Glasgow University and BBC Radio Scotland’s Robert Burns readings (24 January, naturally), are triumphs of cultural completism which radiate the enthusiasm of everyone involved. Some are introductions to poets, artists and musicians who do, after all, have livings to make. Many entries in the calendar are picked on this basis: as small, easy portals into something wide and various which will reward further investment of time and money. The fun of an adventure like this is the way that one genre melts into another, sending ripples across time and space. Some entries – such as John Huston’s film of Malcolm Lowry’s mescal-fuelled modernist masterpiece Under the Volcano (20 January) – come with the authority of a full year’s leisurely burrowing (it is among the BFI’s list of 100 great films to watch on Netflix and Amazon Prime, which was a comfort and joy through lockdown, and is handily still being updated).īut others were completely new to me. ![]() In fact, this calendar very nearly didn’t happen because I kept disappearing down rabbit-holes so deep and fascinating that, had I been the white rabbit himself, someone would have had to drag me out by the ears. It will transport you to some places you always wanted to explore, but couldn’t find the time, and to others you never knew existed, where you will find strange and wonderful things. So here’s a radical alternative diet: instead of depriving yourself, how about making it a month of treats – but feeding your brain instead of your face? Our one-a-day calendar will take you into magical realms of poetry and prose, argument and imagination. ![]() O ur revels now are ended and January looms, with its exhortations to get fit, lose weight, dry out. ![]()
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