A WORLD IN CRISIS

Posted on September 6, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Aung San Suu Kyi, barack obama, Brexit, Charlottesville, cholera, climate change, crisis, DACA, daesh, Donald Trump, famine, Houthi, Hurrican IRma, Hurricane Harvey, hydrogen bomb, ISIS, Myanmar, Nazi imagery, North Korea, nuclear, politicians, politics, Qatar, Rohingya, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Syria, threat, UN, war, white supremacy, world, Yemen.

by Gunnar Eigener

Everywhere we turn to some sort of crisis or damage control is taking place. North Korea’s recent testing of a hydrogen bomb, the massacre of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, Hurricane Harvey devastating parts of Texas, the cholera epidemic and famine in Yemen, the failure of Brexit negotiations, US President Trump’s ever divisive actions, the list goes on. Our global problems are racking up and cracks are starting to appear.

Many of these problems have been long coming, but are now gathering lethal momentum. The world seems to be constantly on edge, waiting with baited breath for the next catastrophe or attack, humanitarian or economical, to happen. New problems are being created or the foundations of future conflicts being laid. What is probably most frustrating is that many are avoidable.Continue Reading

M.A.D. CAN’T SAVE US NOW.

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged army, cold war, crisis, despot, deterrent, diplomacy, display, Donald Trump, global, Japan, Kim Jong-Un, Korea, MAD, militarism, military, navy, news, North Korea, nuclear, Okinawa, Pacific, Regime, South Korea, strike, threat, trident, uk, US, world.

by Toby Gill

Madness. Or, more precisely, M.A.D.ness. This is the doctrine which has governed foreign policy among major powers for the last half a century: ‘Mutually Assured Destruction’ – the idea that the possession of nuclear arms is, in of itself, the ultimate deterrent against aggression from other nuclear armed powers.

It is the reason why the UK is willing to continually bankrupt itself keeping its Trident system running. It is the reason why, in the Cold War, the US and Soviets tolerated one another pouring funding into nuclear missiles, but mutually agreed to ban investment in systems to defend against nuclear missiles, as they were too dangerous. It is the reason why many International Relations experts believe that additional nuclear weapons could actually make the world a safer place. M.A.D. is the key to understanding the ecosystem of superpowers, in the Cold War and beyond.

There is, of course, only one problem – we have no idea whether it really works.

FROM ‘PRAYERS OF THE PLACE OF THE WORLD’

Posted on November 24, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, creative writing, death, in translation, italian women in translation, poem, poetry, prayer, read women, stories, strength, strong, translation, translation thursday, war, word, words, world.

by Alex Valente

Original Italian by Francesca Genti (1975–), da ‘Preghiere del posto del mondo’, in the ‘Ma il mondo, non era di tutti?’ anthology (Marcos Y Marcos)

word, my place in the world,
word who says things,
word who says stories,
who says war and says death,Continue Reading

THE TREE CLOCK

Posted on November 10, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, art, birth, creative writing, in translation, italian women in translation, late, memory, passing, poem, poetry, read women, time, translation, tree, Vivian Lamarque, walks, world.

by Alex Valente

Original Italian by Vivian Lamarque (1946-), ‘l’orologio degli alberi’

You were always really
early for any appointment, made
the whole world seem,
late, the world felt bad,Continue Reading

CROMER, 2013

Posted on July 6, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, Carmina Masoliver, coast, creative writing, Cromer, daydream, English, happy, heart, hope, joy, love, melancholy, norfolk, norwich, pleasure, poem, poet, poetry, positive, relationship, SEA, seaside, sestina, sky, summer, sun, water, waves, weather, women poets, women writers, world, writer, writing.

by Carmina Masoliver

The rush of the lapping waves of the sea,
the sound of shells, smell of salt, is where,
the humdrum left behind, I can just be.
The horizon before me, I can stare,
watch where the sea meets sky and then it leaves –
nowhere I’d rather be than standing there.Continue Reading

NOTHING AS IT SEEMS: A REVIEW OF WILL TEATHER’S INFINITE PERSPECTIVES EXHIBIT

Posted on July 5, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged art, Art Fair East, arts, canvas, Elvis, exhibition, Infinite Perspectives, Michael Jackson, NAC, norfolk, norwich, Norwich Arts Centre, pop art, uk, visual art, will teather, world, worlds.

by Hannah Rose

Tiny cheerleaders, an umbrella on the moon, portraits of dead rock stars – all of these and more can be found in the uncanny paintings of Will Teather. Time’s inconsistency runs throughout this unnerving exhibition. Teather plays with time in a way that would be funny if it wasn’t so unsettling. But then again, isn’t that the mark of a significant piece of art? To catch the viewer unawares?

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

OF THE WORLD

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged #readwomen, absence, breathe, cafe, creative writing, del mondo, in translation, italian, italian women in translation, light, maria luisa vezzali, of the world, people, poem, poet, poetry, smile, translation, vortex, women writers, world, writing.

by Alex Valente

Original Italian by Maria Luisa Vezzali (1964 – ), ‘del mondo’

you lower your head to cross the doorway and beyond the threshold the world breathes
with vision, a restless wave that carries the smell of houses, damp,
rust, ashes, petrol, ages that vortex towards duskContinue Reading

THE VOICE YOU DIDN’T HEAR – A BRITISH-IRAQI WOMAN ON PARIS

Posted on November 19, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged #ParisAttacks, account, daesh, iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamaphobia, Muslim, paris, perspective, politics, terrorism, terrorist, world.

By Dahlia Al-Abdullah

The events that unfolded in Paris have been devastating, as have the other numerous attacks of terrorism that we have seen ripple out across the globe over the last few days, months, and years. To acknowledge the other mass killings in Lebanon, Iraq, Kenya etc. is not a way of trying to play down this act of terrorism. Terrorism exists. Terrorism is absolutely disgusting. What happened in Paris is enough to instil enough fear in me to want to stay away from any big cities for a while.Continue Reading

A COMET, THEY SAID

Posted on November 13, 2014 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged arts, comet, creative writing, earth, italian, italian women in translation, Mariangela Gualtieri, planet, poem, poetry, science, space, translation, water, world.

by Alex Valente

Original Italian by Mariangela Gualtieri (1951 -), from ‘Bestia di Gioia’.

They said it was a comet
smashing into the hardness of Earth
that brought water to the rocks
of our planet.Continue Reading

world

A WORLD IN CRISIS

M.A.D. CAN’T SAVE US NOW.

FROM ‘PRAYERS OF THE PLACE OF THE WORLD’

THE TREE CLOCK

CROMER, 2013

NOTHING AS IT SEEMS: A REVIEW OF WILL TEATHER’S INFINITE PERSPECTIVES EXHIBIT

FIRST LOVE, OF COURSE

OF THE WORLD

THE VOICE YOU DIDN’T HEAR – A BRITISH-IRAQI WOMAN ON PARIS

A COMET, THEY SAID

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