Unrelated Incidents
Encyclopedia
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" where the poem takes the form of a Glaswegian as a BBC
newsreader.
The poem tackles working class alienation
.
Tom Leonard (poet)
Tom Leonard is a Scottish poet, best known for his poems written in Glaswegian dialect.Tom Leonard has been part of the Scottish literary renaissance for the past forty years...
. Written in 1976, One of the better-known of this series is "The Six o'clock news" where the poem takes the form of a Glaswegian as a BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
newsreader.
The poem tackles working class alienation
Social alienation
The term social alienation has many discipline-specific uses; Roberts notes how even within the social sciences, it “is used to refer both to a personal psychological state and to a type of social relationship”...
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