THE HOLIDAY HOME PARADOX: WE LOVE CORNWALL BUT FEEL COMPELLED TO DESTROY IT

Posted on June 26, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Community, Perspectives and tagged Airbnb, coast, Community, conservatives, featured, foodbanks, holiday, home, homeless, house, housing, landlord, padstow, penzance, private housing, st mawes, Tories, uk, Zoopla.

by Sarah Edgcumbe

“Stop whining, you ungrateful inbred bastards, it’s our money that keeps you afloat” or some variant of that sentiment is regularly heard by Cornish people and permanent residents of Cornwall. Particularly in the summer. Particularly when we register our frustration at being priced out of communities we grew up in; at pristine green land being built upon, despite the presence of thousands of empty homes; and particularly when we dare to register our opinion that people are not entitled to as many houses as they like, no matter how wealthy they are. The severe levels of poverty experienced in parts of Cornwall are completely overlooked by wealthy holiday home-owners and the government (the two being far from mutually exclusive). It is hidden from view sufficiently that it will not dirty their holiday photos, it will not visibly encroach upon the sandy beaches or the pristine sea. They can pretend that everybody in Cornwall is as thick as portrayed in the TV show Doc Martin while maintaining a wilful ignorance about the devastating effects their Airbnb accommodation or holiday home is wreaking upon the county they proclaim to love.

CARING FOR THOSE WHO CARE

Posted on May 20, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged Allowance, benefits, care, career, carer, carers week, Dementia tax, disability, featured, health, home, norfolk, norwich, transport, uk, welfare, work.

by James Anthony

Across the country during 11th-17th June, various individuals, charities and institutions will be celebrating Carers Week 2018 in recognition of unpaid carers and the work they do. That period will also mark just over two and a half months of my time working for a local carers charity. It’s opened my eyes to the issues that many carers face and what needs to change to improve their lives, but also to recognise the need to publicise Carers Week and recognise the contribution of carers to society as a whole.Continue Reading

I AM LUCKY

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged alien, belonging, children, choice, economy, familiarity, featured, home, journey, migration, personal, perspective, privilege, risk, Scotland, travel, Uganda.

by Stu Lucy

This week I’d like to offer something a little different. Rather than an article gunning for the Western neoliberal establishment and its detrimental effects on a particular aspect of African society, I would like to take a more pensive stance on an issue that many of us, to me at least, seem to have assimilated and normalised into our daily lives. I hope this article provokes a thought towards those in ever more increasing numbers that lose their lives in a desperate attempt to achieve something more than the lot they’ve been given.Continue Reading

LOVE & LOSS, THEN & NOW: READING OVID’S POETRY OF EXILE

Posted on December 3, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Inter|national and tagged Ars Amatoria, AS Kline, Benjamin Britten, bob dylan, Chaucer, David Malouf, displacement, exile, fluidity, home, Latin, literature, loss, metamorphoses, migration, mythology, Osip Mandelstam, Ovid, poetry, reading, roman, Shakespeare, translation, Tristia.

by Justin Reynolds

Two thousand years ago this winter, a heartbroken Roman nobleman died far from home by the frozen shores of the Black Sea.

The poet Publius Ovidius Naso, known to the world as Ovid, had lived a very different life from the millions of Syrian refugees who today find precarious asylum in nearby Turkey, or the Rohingya, further east, camped in the fields of Bangladesh. But he too knew the pain and bitterness of exile.

In Rome, together with his contemporaries Horace and Virgil, he had been lauded as one of the greats of Latin literature. He was certainly the most fashionable. Born into the Roman aristocracy and enjoying the patronage of the legendary benefactor Maecenas, Ovid had won fame with his sly, knowing love poetry, before writing one of the classics of world literature, the Metamorphoses.Continue Reading

REVIEW: LARRY SULTAN’S HERE AND HOME, SFMOMA

Posted on July 8, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged art, arts, California, camera, dad, David Foster Wallace, exhibition, family, glam, here and home, home, Homeland, immigrant, larry sultan, mum, Observer, photo, photographs, photography, pictures from home, porn, pose, review, san francisco, sex, Tate, Tracey Emin, visual art, voyeur.

by Hannah Rose

Finding the right home for his pictures was a feature of Larry Sultan’s early career. Museums and galleries dismissed his satirical images—which played out an ironic commentary on modern American life—and found themselves on billboards scattered across America instead. Striking and immediate, perhaps they made more of an impact outside gallery walls.

Now Sultan’s photographs can be viewed in galleries including the Solomon Guggenheim Museum and SFMOMA, where his collection Here and Home is on view until July 23rd.Continue Reading

GENERATION AIRBNB – SAN FRANCISCO

Posted on June 24, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged Airbnb, California, crisis, frisco, gentrification, Google, home, homeless, homelessness, housing, neoliberalism, prison, rent, san francisco, startups, Summer of Love, tech, The Mission, travel, Uber, US, USA, Valencia, work.

by Hannah Rose

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Allen Ginsberg, San Francisco. 1955

Aliyah has lived in San Francisco’s Mission district her entire life, which I estimate at being around twenty-eight years. Mission is the city’s working class and Latino area. She sleeps on the living room floor. The TV is on and throws intermittent light over her slumbering form, phone still in hand. I have to step over Aliyah on my way to her room—which I am renting through Airbnb for the week—and am careful not to wake her despite the blare of the TV. On the wall, beneath a tangle of half-deflated gold balloons left over from a party, is a giant poster of Whitney Houston—the queen of pop. Behind the water cooler is the silhouetted form of Michael Jackson—the king of pop—suspended on tippy-toes and ‘He Lives’ stencilled beneath.

Photographs of Aliyah and her husband smile back at me from heart-shaped frames that decorate the far wall and on a small, white canvas the words ‘Life is the Flower for which Love is the Honey’ are in poppy-red. One of a few splashes of colour in this windowless, dimly lit apartment.Continue Reading

LITTLE GIRLS MUST

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, Alessandra Carnaroli, boys, calendario utopico, children, creative writing, daddy, girls, heels, home, identity, in translation, italian, italian women in translation, le bambine devono, poem, poetry, read women, sartoria utopia, skin, translation, women, writing.

by Alex Valente

Original Italian by Alessandra Carnaroli (1979-), ‘le bambine devono’. Part of Sartoria Utopia’s Calendario Utopico 2017.

little girls must be
little girls
with long hair
or short if sweaty
with rhinestones

and hairclips
and headbands

they get ready to have children
to behave
to earn less than boysContinue Reading

A CULTURE OF RESISTANCE: FIGHTING FOR RADICAL ART IN INCREASINGLY GENTRIFIED NORWICH

Posted on July 16, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged Al Simmons, art, arts, Brexit, carrow road, city council, city of literature, common property, Community, culture, doing different, dove st, dream, Duncan Joseph, elite, exhibition, football, gentrification, home, independent film, isolation, Karl Minns, Ken Loach, kett's rebellion, kitchen sink, norfolk, norwich, photography, Pottergate, radical art, realism, Simon Floyd, The Story of Kett's Rebellion, UNESCO, village mentality, voice.

by Jack Brindelli

As the dust continues to settle on soon to be post-EU Britain, I’ve been thinking a lot about the place I call home. Norwich has been my city for quarter of a century now, and as my Granny says of such milestones, “You get less time for murder.” Norwich is infamously disconnected from the world, with visiting football fans often singing “there’s only one road in Norfolk” to Guantanamera at Carrow Road – and as much as it pains me to admit it, the isolation is a real problem.

The fact we’re so cut off from outsiders rubs off on our city’s attitudes towards culture in particular – with a quintessentially Little England village-mentality that boasts of being an UNESCO City of Literature in a town perpetually threatening its libraries with cuts, and renders us fiercely defensive of our ‘doing different’ status-quo, who year on year wheel out the same tired Lord Mayor’s procession, Castle firework display, and cover-band music festival, while remaining collectively suspicious, and sometimes even hostile to new ideas.

REVIEW – EMILY HARRISON’S ‘I CAN’T SLEEP ‘CAUSE MY BED’S ON FIRE’

Posted on June 8, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, arts, BAR, book, Burn After Reading, Burning Eye Books, Carol Ann Duffy, characters, Chardonnay, class, collection, creative writing, critique, domestic violence, Emily Harrison, extrovert, feminism, feminist, gender, home, humour, interview, Jenn Hart, literature, Lolita, love, mental health, page, performance, poem, poet, poetry, Pulp, review, She Grrrowls, stage, TV, Vinnie Jones, women writers, writing.

by Carmina Masoliver

I have seen Emily Harrison share her work countless times at Burn After Reading events, and at my own night, She Grrrowls. She never fails to amaze me in the way she is able to articulate herself, speaking out about mental health issues – amongst other subjects – interwoven with links to gender and class. When I read lines about imaging someone loves you ‘when you simply asked/during a routine blood test, ‘Emily, how are you doing today?’ I sort of imagine she’s what I would be like if I were an extrovert.

The first couple of poems are familiar to me, and it’s hard not to picture Harrison on stage delivering these words, because as much as it’s incredible to be able to read the pieces, seeing them live is an important part of the way the text works, as it tends to be with Burning Eye Books – the go-to publisher for writers who refuse to remain on one side of the page/stage divide.Continue Reading

FIVE REASONS WHY TRAVEL DOESN’T MAKE YOU A BETTER PERSON

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged abroad, Community, consumerism, good person, home, people, sustainability, travel, travelling, volunteering.

by Olivia Hanks

Do you keep thinking you should travel more, but find yourself doing other things instead? If so, the internet would like you to believe you are a bad person. Hyper-motivational Instagram culture has led to a panoply of blogs enumerating the reasons Why Everyone Should Travel and Why Travel Makes You A Better Person. International travel, once the privilege of the very few, has passed straight through the stage of being considered a right: cyberspace now deems it a responsibility.Continue Reading

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THE HOLIDAY HOME PARADOX: WE LOVE CORNWALL BUT FEEL COMPELLED TO DESTROY IT

by Sarah Edgcumbe

CARING FOR THOSE WHO CARE

I AM LUCKY

LOVE & LOSS, THEN & NOW: READING OVID’S POETRY OF EXILE

REVIEW: LARRY SULTAN’S HERE AND HOME, SFMOMA

GENERATION AIRBNB – SAN FRANCISCO

LITTLE GIRLS MUST

A CULTURE OF RESISTANCE: FIGHTING FOR RADICAL ART IN INCREASINGLY GENTRIFIED NORWICH

REVIEW – EMILY HARRISON’S ‘I CAN’T SLEEP ‘CAUSE MY BED’S ON FIRE’

FIVE REASONS WHY TRAVEL DOESN’T MAKE YOU A BETTER PERSON

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