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VE Day songs: Celebrate with these classics!
Looking for some classic tunes to celebrate VE Day 2021? We’ve got you covered.
May 8th is annually celebrated as Victory in Europe Day, commonly known as VE Day. On that day in 1945, Britain and its allies formally accepted Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender.
On that day, now 76 years ago, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced over the radio at 15:00 that the war in Europe had ended. Of course, everybody broke out into celebrations and since then we have witnessed block parties and so much more.
With the nationwide lockdown still largely in place in the UK, many Britons will be looking for a safe way to celebrate. So, why not celebrate with some music?
Glyn Maxwell,
Alan Gillis,
Ben Wilkinson on poetic voice, formal prowess, and strange times
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Paul Farley took the pulse at the turn of our millennium when he quipped that contemporary poets haven’t had criticism, they’ve had marketing. In an age where marketing’s role in matters aesthetic is ever-increasing, the individual voice can be an overvalued commodity, playing to a perceived appetite for poet-as-author. It is refreshing, then, to encounter Glyn Maxwell’s
How the Hell Are You, a collection of poems whose unfashionably complex play with poetic voice recognises and exploits the ultimate impersonality of writing – how it is only ever language that speaks, acts, and performs. But then Maxwell has always done his own thing, ever since he set the empty roundabout spinning in the first poem of his first collection, some thirty years ago. Formally dextrous, syntactically inventive, able to combine authentic emotion with self-reflexive dramatisation: for those in