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Scandal ’63 Revisited: Symposium in Leicester

21 Tuesday Mar 2023

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Film, History, Poetry, Politics, Profumo Affair

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Carol Dyhouse, Caroline Collett, Caroline Coon, Cathy Lomax, Christine Keeler, Dameon Priestly, De Montfort University, Fionn Wilson, Gemma June Howell, Guinevere Clark, Leicester, Leicester Gallery, Marguerite Horner, Mari Ellis Dunning, Melanie Williams, Pauline Boty, Profumo Affair, Richard Farmer, Sarah Caulfield, Scandal '63 Revisited, Seymour Platt, Stephen Ward, Steve Chibnall, Sue Tate

A symposium for Scandal ’63 Revisited will be held at Leicester Gallery on Friday, April 14th, ahead of the exhibition’s last day on Saturday. Tickets are free but must be reserved in advance here. (The flyer image seen above shows an outtake from Christine Keeler’s iconic photo shoot with Lewis Morley, who later recreated her most famous pose with the Leicester-born playwright and provocateur, Joe Orton.)

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SOLEDAD #6: Lana’s ‘Violet,’ Nouchka Van Brakel, and More

08 Sunday Aug 2021

Posted by marina72 in Books, Lana Del Rey, Periodicals, Poetry

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Jenny H. Batlay, Lana Del Rey, Marcelline Block, Nouchka Van Brakel, Ruth LaSure, Sam Nortey Jr., Samm Deigan, Soledad, Sunmates, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass, World War II

Issue 6 of SOLEDAD Arts Journal – out now via Amazon for just £3.13 in the UK, or $3.78 across the pond – is also the 20th volume from Nostalgia Kinky Publications, including predecessor ART DECADES (and I’m proud to have appeared in all but five.) This issue is peppered with lyrics from French singer-songwriter Véronique Sanson.

The cover story is an exclusive interview with Dutch filmmaker Nouchka Van Brakel, in conjunction with a new triple-boxset on Blu-Ray from Cult Epics. Editor Jeremy Richey has also spoken with film historian Samm Deigan about his new book, The Legacy of World War II in European Arthouse Cinema. Marcelline Block interviews author Sam Nortey Jr., who shares an extract from his novel, Thumbwars. Marcelline also contributes a scrapbook history of feminist artist and scholar, Jenny H. Batlay. There’s poetry from Marcelline and Ruth LaSure, and Emily Clare Bryant meets Sunmates, a synth-pop band from Lexington, Kentucky.

And finally, I’ve written a 24-page essay on Lana Del Rey’s debut poetry book/spoken-word album, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass. I hope you’ll enjoy delving into this fascinating project as much as I did.

Beauty Mark: A Verse Novel of Marilyn Monroe

18 Monday Jan 2021

Posted by marina72 in Books, Film, Marilyn Monroe, Poetry

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Carole Boston Weatherford, Marilyn Monroe, Norma Jeane, Verse Novel, Young Adult

The front cover image presents – in extreme close-up and suffused in glitter – all the facial attributes of a screen goddess: the bedroom eyes, red lips, and of course her beauty mark (cut into the dustjacket.) And yet, she’s both familiar and strangely not herself: a dazzling mask. Only when the jacket unfolds and the iconic image is revealed in full can we be certain this is Marilyn Monroe, from the same photo shoot that inspired Andy Warhol’s first silkscreens. Beneath this vivid mask, a glossy black hardcover is embossed with a short verse in white font: “No one knows/how it feels/inside my troubled mind/No one wants to.” Continue reading →

Violets, Flamingos and Heroes in Autumn

09 Friday Oct 2020

Posted by marina72 in Art and Photography, Books, Brighton, Music, Poetry, Profumo Affair

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Brighton, Christine Keeler, David Bowie, Dreadzone, Emily Capell, Flamingo, Flamingo Club, Geoff McCormack, Lana Del Rey, Mercy for Christine, NHS Heroes, Rosie the Riveter, Roxana Halls, Seymour Platt, The Skatalites, Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

On New Year’s Eve, I wrote here of my fears over where the world is heading. Little did I know that only a few weeks later we would be facing up to a pandemic. 2020 has been a strange, lonesome year for many of us. Continue reading →

My Hopes and Fears for 2020

31 Tuesday Dec 2019

Posted by marina72 in Books, Film, Lana Del Rey, Music, Poetry, Politics, Television, Updates, Writing

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1st September 1939, A Year in Books, A Year in Films and TV, A Year in Music, Art Decades, David Lynch, Dear Christine, Donna Tartt, ES Updates, Everlasting Star, Fan Phenomena, James Gray, Jeremy Corbyn, Lana Del Rey, Marilyn Monroe, Marion Cotillard, Poetry, Socialism, Soledad, The Goldfinch, The Immigrant, Twin Peaks, Ultraviolence, Video Games, W.H. Auden

As a new decade beckons, I’m deeply worried about the way our world seems to be heading. As W.H. Auden wrote on ‘September 1, 1939‘ (a poem deemed so prescient he tried to bury it …) Continue reading →

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