SPRING-BEARING COURAGE

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, autumn, courage, creative writing, fall, italian, italian women in translation, Italy, n translation, people, poem, poetry, read women, seasons, spring, translation, translation thursday, women writers, words.

by Alex Valente

Original Italian by Verusca Costenaro (1974 – ), ‘Il coraggio che fa primavera’

It’ll be from your comicseyes

that a new courage will rise

for the autumn, it’ll tangle in the wind

and the wind will paint it snowinter

so that the sun may thaw it

fresh in spring, it’ll be

a bearing of violets and mixture of calls,

cerulean choir bearing life in the background to desire,

the sprint of wings on the field, to feed on the grass that will grow,

summervoice adorned of an evergreen yellow,

a remedy to the fears brought by good

dreams of a small evening in august.

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THE 2017 GENERAL ELECTION – LEFT US HANGING

Posted on June 9, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #GE2017, Amber Rudd, austerity, Brexit, Britan, caroline lucas, Chris Jarvis, coverage, democracy, exit poll, forecast, general election, greens, jeremy corbyn, John Bartley, Labour, leadership, libdems, manifesto, media, MSM, NHS, nick clegg, nicola sturgeon, Norwich Radical, paul nuttall, people, Plaid Cymru, PLP, politics, poll, prediction, propaganda, Scotland, snp, theresa may, Tim Farron, tony blair, Tory, uk, UKIP, vote, voter, voting.

by The Norwich Radical

The following piece was created, compiled and co-written by a number of Norwich Radical contributors, across a number of locations, devices, and even countries. We followed the exit polls, the first counts, the calculations and predictions as they became available across the media. We do not have any inside information, but have combined our experience and information during the night to produce this article in time for the morning readers.

There is no final result confirmed at the time of publication, but it has been confirmed that we have a hung parliament, as it is mathematically impossible for any party to claim an overall majority.

A BEGINNING, NOT THE END – THE 2017 GENERAL ELECTION

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #GE2017, austerity, Brexit, Britan, caroline lucas, Chris Jarvis, coverage, democracy, exit poll, forecast, general election, greens, jeremy corbyn, John Bartley, Labour, leadership, libdems, manifesto, media, MSM, NHS, nicola sturgeon, Norwich Radical, paul nuttall, people, PLP, politics, poll, prediction, propaganda, Scotland, snp, theresa may, Tim Farron, tony blair, Tory, uk, UKIP, vote, voter, voting.

by Chris Jarvis

In a couple of hours, polling stations will close, and the fate of the United Kingdom will have been decided. Throughout the night the gentle trickling of results will sprinkle their way in, as the aftermath of the most fascinating election for a generation will begin to unravel. Psephologists will debate the relative merits of their predictions, political spin-artists will argue their respective parties have actually done quite a lot better than they expected, and the hacks (myself included), will drift further into the early hours, wearing out their laptop keys.

Right now, we know that the election campaign has been riddled with ups and with downs. We’ve seen Labour climb steadily in the polls, narrowing the Tory lead from over 20 points to single figures; two atrocities claimed the lives of 34 people; campaigning was suspended twice; the Tories launched a manifesto into a whirlwind of negativity; UKIP’s support collapsed; and Labour proposed a political programme further to the left of any Government in four decades. Any one of those alone would make this election remarkable. Combined they make it unique.

PERSPECTIVE

Posted on May 27, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged apathy, cognitive development, communication, Community, couple, creative criticism, egoism, elections, empathy, GE2017, mental health, people, perspective, Piaget, politics, pov, technology, writing.

by Alice Thomson

CW: abuse

Point of view is surprisingly important. As a child, I was always being told by my mother to ‘put my feet in another’s shoes’. It’s surprisingly difficult for children to actually do this.

According to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, children between the age of 2 and 7 are in the preoperational stage. During this stage, children are egotistical in the purest sense. They display Centration and Egocentrism which means the child has a tendency to focus on one aspect of a situation at one time and they have an inability to see a situation from another’s point of view.Continue Reading

REVIEW: AUTUMN, BY ALI SMITH

Posted on May 20, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged affection, Ali Smith, arts, autumn, awkwardness, book, Brexit, bureaucracy, connection, division, ekphrasis, EU referendum, history, love, metaphor, neighbours, Penguin Random House, people, philosophy, Plato, prose, review, Socrates, writing, xenophobia.

by Eli Lambe

Rich with reference and metaphor, Ali Smith’s Autumn is a triumph. Published incredibly quickly following the chaos of the EU Referendum in June 2016, it fully captures the feelings of isolation, division, and distrust that seems to have characterised the 12 months since. The atmosphere of unreality is masterfully tied together with dream-sequence, ekphrasis, and lies. The principal character, Elisabeth sums it up concisely as an eight year old in 1993: “It’s about history, and being neighbours.”Continue Reading

HAPPY TO BE ANGRY: THE ANTI-GOVERNMENT ROMANIAN PROTESTS

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged #Colectiv, alternative media, Andrei Mosloc, angry, anti-government, Bucharest, change, children, classism, corruption, creative culture, creative protest, democracy, demonstration, education, Goodbye to Gravity, hope, march, Marius Tudor, media, Mihaela Precup, nationalism, nightclub, people, positive action, protest, rally, regulation, Roșia Montana, Romania, tabloids, technocracy, The Day we Die.

by Mihaela Precup

“Romania is not sexy,” a fellow academic once told me. “Nobody cares what happens there, nobody wants to study it. There’s so little going on there that’s really exciting or new. ” I thought she was right at the time. After all, I was also always going on about the political apathy of much of my fellow Romanians, the very slow pace of change after the fall of communism in December 1989, as well as the indifference of post-revolutionary governments towards preserving the memory of the totalitarian regime and its survivors. Apathy and amnesia were, I thought, the two main curses of my people.

But four years ago, something finally started happening.Continue Reading

INTERESTING PEOPLE

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #italianwomenintranslation, #readwomen, creative writing, death, in translation, Laura Accerboni, monsters, people, poem, poetry, read women, resistance, translation, women writers.

by Alex Valente

Original Italian by Laura Accerboni (1985-), from ‘La parte dell’annegato’

We are interesting
people.
Our arms are
interesting
as are our teeth,
every sign of resistance
shows something interesting.Continue Reading

EACH PERSON IS A FISH

Posted on August 10, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged atlantic, creative writing, fish, fish people, God, hadal, nervous, people, personal, pescetarian, poem, poetry, politics, privilege, response, sweating, underworld, writing.

by Julian Canlas

the room gleams like water–all of them here are fish

from either the sea or the lake, salt and fresh,
their fins flapping–a vision of ecstasy, the smell–

pungent redefined, their slippery scales glimmering
in their pursuit of perfection. how do they surviveContinue Reading

‘A MESSAGE TO THOSE WHO PATRONISE US’

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged anger, arts, austerity, people, poem, poetry, politics, poverty, young people, youth.

by George Laver

Take a moment, to reflect
The anger of youth
Without disrespectContinue Reading

FIRST LOVE, OF COURSE

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, amore, creative writing, emotions, forget, in translation, italian, italian women in translation, love, night, people, poem, poetry, read women, remember, stars, stay, summer, translation, translation thursday, Valentina Pinza, wish, women writers, world.

by Alex Valente

Original Italian by Valentina Pinza (1982-), ‘Primo amore, naturalmente’

It was love, but we didn’t notice
none of us knew
years have passed
enough
for us to forget everything, the breathing and all the rest
we’ve thrown out those t-shirts
summers and summers ago
maybe even the following year;
that night we watched the stars
who said wishes are lonely?Continue Reading

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SPRING-BEARING COURAGE

THE 2017 GENERAL ELECTION – LEFT US HANGING

A BEGINNING, NOT THE END – THE 2017 GENERAL ELECTION

PERSPECTIVE

REVIEW: AUTUMN, BY ALI SMITH

HAPPY TO BE ANGRY: THE ANTI-GOVERNMENT ROMANIAN PROTESTS

INTERESTING PEOPLE

EACH PERSON IS A FISH

‘A MESSAGE TO THOSE WHO PATRONISE US’

FIRST LOVE, OF COURSE

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