Unrelated Incidents by Tom Leonard
The Context Of The Poem
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Tom Leonard was born in Glasgow in 1944, where he has continued to
live ever since. He studied English and Scottish Literature at the
University Of Glasgow. His first publication was "Six Glasgow Poems"
written while at university in 1967. His collection of twenty-years
work, intimate voices, shared the Saltier Scottish book of the year
award in 1984. All though his passport identifies him as a British
Citizen, Tom Leonard sense of his own cultural identity is thoroughly
Scottish. Almost Leonard's poetry is written in his Glasgow dialect.
His aim has always working class "West of Scotland speech that is
still poetry".
My focus on "The voice: in my work Leonard has written, two buy
products over the years. An involvement in performance "Sound poetry"
and an increasingly explicit awareness of the political nature of
voice in British culture.
"Unrelated Incidents" is a set of six poems each of which looks at
some aspect of the way we use language it was written in 1976.
Vocabulary
Widney wahnt - Wouldn't want
Wanna you scruff - One of your scruffs
Widny thingk - Wouldn't think
Tokn - Talking
Yooz doant no - You don't know
Yirsellz - Yourself
Canny - Can't
What Is The Poem About
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2. He/she explains why the BBC thinks it is important to read the BBC
news in a BBC accent. No one will take the news seriously if its read
with voice like/wanna u/scruff. It is not that simple though.
3. He/she speaks here in the accent of an ordinary speaker just the
kind of voice the newsreader is rejecting.
4. A newsreader would never really reveal his/her prejudices directly
to the viewer in this way. So what the newsreader says in this poem
perhaps need to be seen, as unspoken message of the way the news is
represented.
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