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Ailbhe Darcy What other words could there be for what I felt, at 13 or so, when I laid eyes on a certain “gold, dark boy”, but Chimborazo, Cotopaxi? Sure, these words may at times have been arbitrarily attached to other, more mountainy objects, but here, in this poem, they find their true home. I met my future husband at 19, and I wrote this poem in a notebook for him.
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By then it had already been echoing around inside me for years, telling me the truth about love. (Love is monomaniacal, love is appalling, love is secret, love is childish, love rips you from the bosom of your family, love is woozy, love is ravishing, love is scrumdiddlyumptious.) I should probably feel embarrassed at telling Ireland that this is my favourite love poem, but am unabashed. There are many fine poems about the grown-up parts of love, but it’s as infatuated teenagers that we learn romance, and as infatuated teenagers that we practice romance, all the rest of our lives. I don’t suppose a marriage could amount to much if it didn’t have a pair of infatuated teenagers hidden in it. Ailbhe Darcy’s two collections are Imaginary Menagerie (2011) and Insistence (due May 2018), both with Bloodaxe Romance by WJ Turner When I was but thirteen or so I went into a golden land, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi Took me by the hand. My father died, my brother too, They passed like fleeting dreams, I stood where Popocatapetl In the sunlight gleams.
I dimly heard the master’s voice And boys far-off at play, – Chimborazo, Cotopaxi Had stolen me away. I walked in a great golden dream To and fro from school – Shining Popocatapetl The dusty streets did rule. I walked home with a gold dark boy And never a word I’d say, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi Had taken my speech away. Ghost Poem by Vona Groarke Crowded at my window tonight, your ghosts will have nothing to speak of but love though the long grass leading to my door is parted neither by you leaving nor by you coming here. The same ghosts keep in with my blood, the way a small name says itself, over and over, so one minute is cavernous compared to the next, and I cannot locate words enough to tell you your wrist on my breast had the same two sounds to it. You are a sky over narrow water and the ghosts at my window are a full day until I shed their loss.
I want to tell you all their bone-white, straight-line prophecies but the thought of you, this and every night, is your veins in silverpoint mapped on my skin, your life on mine, that I made up and lived inside, as real, and I find I cannot speak of love or any of its wind-torn ghosts to you who promised warm sheets and a candle, lit, but promised me in words. Vona Groarke, X (Gallery Press) Tom Paulin To Lizbie Browne may seem an odd choice of a love poem.
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I first encountered it in Dylan Thomas’s great reading on an EP which my English teacher, Eric Brown, played to us in Belfast in the mid-sixties. It haunted me and later I came to see it as primal, obsessive, even fetishistic. Partly, I responded to that “Aye” – “Yes”, but with a hint of “ochone”.
The word has a pause after it and this prepares us for for the way the penultimate line pauses and then completes itself with “Love”, which is emphatic and in a way heart-rending. The two emphatic stresses on “Bay-red” tense the third stanza which softens into the Anglo-Saxon, slightly erotic, “flesh so fair”.
The poem is witty and in “coaxed and caught” slightly sinister. It succeeds in being both tender and self-mocking. Tom Paulin’s latest work is New Selected Poems (Faber, 2014) To Lizbie Browne I Dear Lizbie Browne, Where are you now? In sun, in rain,? – Or is your brow Past joy, past pain, Dear Lizbie Browne?
II Sweet Lizbie Browne, How you could smile, How you could sing! - How archly wile In glance-giving, Sweet Lizbie Browne! III And, Lizbie Browne Who else had hair Bay-red as yours, Or flesh so Fair Bred out of doors, Sweet Lizbie Browne! IV When, Lizbie Browne You had just begun To be endeared By stealth to one, You disappeared My Lizbie Browne! V Aye, Lizbie Browne, So swift your life, And mine so slow, You were a wife Ere I could show Love, Lizbie Browne.
VI Still, Lizbie Browne, You won, they said, The best of men When you were wed. Where went you then, O Lizbie Browne? VII Dear Lizbie Browne, I should have thought, ‘Girls ripen fast,’ And coaxed and caught You ere you passed, Dear Lizbie Browne! VIII But, Lizbie Browne, I let you slip; Shaped not a sign; Touched never your lip With lip of mine, Lost Lizbie Browne! IX So, Lizbie Browne, When on a day Men speak of me As not, you’ll say ‘And who was he?’ Yes, Lizbie Browne! Elaine Feinstein They Flee From Me by Sir Thomas Wyatt They flee from me that sometime did me seek With naked foot, stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild and do not remember That sometime they put themself in danger To take bread at my hand; and now they range, Busily seeking with a continual change.
Thanked be fortune it hath been otherwise Twenty times better; but once in special, In thin array after a pleasant guise, When her loose gown from her shoulders did fall, And she me caught in her arms long and small; Therewithall sweetly did me kiss And softly said, “Dear heart, how like you this?” It was no dream: I lay broad waking. But all is turned thorough my gentleness Into a strange fashion of forsaking; And I have leave to go of her goodness, And she also, to use newfangleness. But since that I so kindly am served I would fain know what she hath deserved.
I’ve always loved this poem. You could argue it is unuitable for Valentine’s Day, since Wyatt begins from his sense of rejection by the many women he has loved.
He recalls them as wild creatures who once “stalked with naked foot within my chamber” and were willing to “take bread at my hands” with the gentle sensuality a man might feel for a tamed animal. All the more astonishing then to have him remembering one woman above all the others who throws off her clothes and takes sweet control of a sexual encounter. Few poems evoke more powerfully the strength and tenderness of physical love, however much Wyatt goes on to blame his lover for her “newfangleness” in going her own way. Elaine Feinstein’s latest collection is The Clinic Memory: New and Selected Poems (Carcanet) Julia Copus My husband, Andrew, read John Donne’s The Good Morrow to me during our wedding and I managed not to cry, though it’s one of my all-time favourite love poems. Another is The Shampoo by Elizabeth Bishop, a poem about the robust permanence of love; it ends with the speaker offering to wash her lover’s hair in a basin that is “battered and shiny like the moon”. But I want to single out Don Paterson’s timeless sonnet, Waking with Russell, about a new father waking in bed face to face with his four-day-old son.
At the mid-point of the poem, the speaker says he is mezzo del cammin – a quotation from Dante’s Inferno meaning “in the middle of the journey”. The whole thing is exquisitely crafted (there are only two rhymes throughout, though people usually don’t notice on first reading) but it’s the emotional power that makes this such a great love poem. And although it’s written for a specific situation, that unexpected rediscovery of love in the middle of life’s journey is something that resonates strongly with many readers. Julia Copus’s works include The World’s Two Smallest Humans (Faber, 2012), shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Award Waking with Russell By Don Paterson Whatever the difference is, it all began the day we woke up face-to-face like lovers and his four-day-old smile dawned on him again, possessed him, till it would not fall or waver; and I pitched back not my old hard-pressed grin but his own smile, or one I’d rediscovered. Dear son, I was mezzo del cammin and the true path was as lost to me as ever when you cut in front and lit it as you ran.
See how the true gift never leaves the giver: returned and redelivered, it rolled on until the smile poured through us like a river. How fine, I thought, this waking amongst men! I kissed your mouth and pledged myself forever. Christopher Reid So many love poems are concerned with the exciting preliminaries: first glimpse, coup de foudre, wooing, and winning or losing; too few celebrate what follows. Part of Plenty by Bernard Spencer (1909-63) is a great, uxorious exception.
The poet describes his wife (I take it) bringing food to the table (“soup with its good / Tickling smell, or fry winking from the fire”) and placing tulips in a jug (“upright stems and leaves that you hear creak”) in a way that brings all the senses into harmony, hearing and smell no less than sight. He proceeds like a painter, coaxing coherence from disparate elements. The final stanza, in a risky gesture typical of Spencer, confounds both syntax and grammar to suggest an uncontrolled blurting out of joy, a matrimonial ecstasy that obeys only its own laws. I find this ingenious, profound and moving. Christopher Reid won the 2009 Costa Book Award for A Scattering Part of Plenty by Bernard Spencer When she carries food to the table and stoops down -Doing this out of love-and lays soup with its good Tickling smell, or fry winking from the fire And I look up, perhaps from a book I am reading Or other work: there is an importance of beauty Which can’t be accounted for by there and then, And attacks me, but not separately from the welcome Of the food, or the grace of her arms.
. Ben York Jones. Michael Mohan Running time 22–27 minutes Production company(s) Midnight Radio Release Original network Original release February 16, 2018 External links Everything Sucks! Is an American created by and Michael Mohan that parodies teen culture of the mid-1990s.
Ten half-hour episodes were ordered by Netflix and the series was released on February 16, 2018. The series is set in the real-life town of in 1996, and focuses on a group of teenagers who attend the fictional Boring High School as they proceed to make a movie together while dealing with issues such as finding their sexualities, mental health, and growing up. On April 6, 2018, it was announced that Netflix had cancelled the show after one season. Contents. Plot Everything Sucks! Revolves around students at in Oregon in 1996; centering around the A/V club, and the Drama club, with both groups seen as misfits.
Luke O'Neil, is a freshman at Boring, along with his best friends, McQuaid, a pessimistic geek, and Tyler Bowen, a squeaky-voiced, immature teen. Immediately, the boys are seen as social outcasts and join the A/V Club, where Luke develops a crush on Kate Messner, the principal's daughter and a sophomore at Boring. Kate, however, starts questioning her sexuality and develops a crush on drama student Emaline Addario, who is dating fellow drama student Oliver Schermerhorn. However, Kate starts dating Luke after rumors of her being gay are spread around the school. When an accidental destruction of the sets, inadvertently caused by Kate, causes the play to be cancelled, Luke and his friends suggest the A/V Club and Drama Club make a movie together, which would then be screened to the whole high school. Meanwhile, Luke deals with discovering VHS tapes that his father made before leaving him and his mother years prior. Throughout the season, Luke's mother, Sherry, begins to grow close to Ken Messner, Kate's father and the principal of Boring, and Kate is struggling with her identity and sexuality, Tyler struggles with his friends' interest in girls, and McQuaid develops a crush on Emaline, only to be rejected.
Cast Main cast. Jahi Di'Allo Winston as Luke O’Neil, a freshman in A/V club who has a crush on Kate Messner. His father, Leroy abandoned him and his mother when he was a child. as Kate Messner, the daughter of the principal and a sophomore in A/V club. She starts questioning her sexuality and develops a crush on Emaline Addario. Patch Darragh as Ken Messner, the principal and Kate's dad who starts to connect with Sherry, Luke's mother.
His wife, Kate's mother, died when Kate was five. Claudine M. Nako as Sherry O'Neil, Luke's mother and a flight attendant who starts to become romantically close to Ken.
Quinn Liebling as Tyler Bowen, a freshman in A/V club and one of Luke's best friends. He has ADD and dyslexia.
Elijah Stevenson as Oliver Schermerhorn, a senior in drama club and Emaline's boyfriend, who runs away to New York. as Emaline Addario, a junior in drama club and Oliver's ex-girlfriend with a flair for drama. as McQuaid, a freshman in A/V club, one of Luke's best friends. He is known for being socially awkward with girls. Recurring cast. Abi Brittle as Leslie, a religious member of A/V club, who is friends with Kate and later develops a crush on Tyler.
Jalon Howard as Cedric, a member of the drama club. Connor Muhl as Scott Pocket, a pervy student who reads the morning announcements with Jessica.
Nicole McCullough as Jessica Betts, a perfectionist who reads the morning announcements with Scott. Stargrove, the quirky A/V club teacher.
Guest stars. Zachary Ray Sherman as Leroy O'Neil, Luke's father who left when he was 7 years old. as Miss Stock, a teacher of Boring High School. Episodes No.
Title Directed by Written by Original release date 1 'Plutonium' Michael Mohan & Michael Mohan February 16, 2018 ( 2018-02-16) As a new year begins at Boring High School, freshman Luke and his friends, McQuaid and Tyler join the A/V club. Luke develops a crush on Kate Messner, the principal's daughter.
Emaline, a drama student, catches the eyes of Kate during lunch. Luke invites Kate over to his house to fix her camera, and she takes a porn magazine from his garage. At home, Kate stares at photos of females in the magazine and is about to masturbate before her father walks in and interrupts, thinking she is looking at the photos due to insecurity about her body image. Luke then makes a plan on how to ask Kate out.
2 'Maybe You’re Gonna Be the One That Saves Me' Michael Mohan Ben York Jones & Michael Mohan February 16, 2018 ( 2018-02-16) Luke plans on how to ask Kate out. Kate, after encountering Emaline in the locker room, deals with rumors of her being a lesbian and 'dyke' being written on her locker. Luke makes a video for Kate based on the music video for and proceeds to ask her out, which she says yes to. Meanwhile, Luke finds VHS tapes, which contain videos of his father, who left when he was young, talking to the camera. 3 'All That and a Bag of Chips' Michael Mohan February 16, 2018 ( 2018-02-16) Luke and Kate watch the drama club rehearse for the upcoming school play, but Kate ends up pulling the fire alarm when Luke tries to kiss her, destroying the sets for the play. The drama club plans revenge after their play is then cancelled, resulting in Emaline going to detention, as well as Luke, who covers up for Kate. At the end, Kate, McQuaid, Tyler, and Luke go to the drama club with plan to ease tensions.
Meanwhile, Ken, the principal, and Sherry, Luke's mother, talk when Sherry is called in following Luke's detention. 4 'Romeo & Juliet in Space' Michael Mohan Hayley Tyler February 16, 2018 ( 2018-02-16) Luke, Tyler, McQuaid, and Kate present the idea of a movie in place of the play, in order to ease the tensions between the two groups. While playing spin-the-bottle, Luke lands on Kate and they kiss in the closet, which results in Kate revealing that she thinks she is a lesbian. Following this, the drama club says that they will take up the A/V club's offer. Meanwhile, Sherry and Ken engage in spontaneous immature behavior, including TP-ing someone's house. 5 'What the Hell’s a Zarginda?' Ben York Jones & Michael Mohan February 16, 2018 ( 2018-02-16) Luke tries to help Kate deal with her recent revelation.
Luke suggests that they stay in a relationship so that no one suspects that she is a lesbian with the condition that Luke tells Kate if he starts falling in love with her. Luke and Oliver hold auditions for the movie before casting Oliver and Emaline in the lead roles. Emaline takes Kate shopping after she is told Kate would be helping with costumes. Ken invites Luke over for dinner, and Luke realizes he is in love with Kate after listening to her sing '. 6 'Sometimes I Hear My Voice' Ry Russo-Young Ben York Jones February 16, 2018 ( 2018-02-16) Luke gets tickets for him and Kate to see in Portland, so they take a car from Luke's garage and drive to there. At the concert, Kate sees two girls kissing and realizes it's time for her and Luke to break up. Kate proceeds to argue with Luke and tells him that she's happy the way she is and that nothing can change her.
She says that it was important that she knew who she was, saying that he needed to stop making it about him. She then tells Luke that he only enjoyed the idea of her, and the idea of a girlfriend. Ken and Sherry partake in contraband that was confiscated from a student, they go around the school before going swimming and kissing, before Kate calls Ken to pick them up following the car being towed. 7 'Cheesecake to a Fat Man' Ry Russo-Young Sean Cummings February 16, 2018 ( 2018-02-16) Following his breakup with Kate, Luke is angry and irritable in their last couple days of filming. Kate changes her room around and attempts to pierce her nose, while her father celebrates in joy after his night with Sherry.
Kate then convinces her dad to fund a field trip to Dominguez Rocks, to serve as a backdrop for a part of their film. Meanwhile, Oliver, Emaline, McQuaid, and Tyler experiment with drugs following a visit on the internet. 8 'I Just Wanna Be Anybody' Michael Mohan Hayley Tyler February 16, 2018 ( 2018-02-16) The A/V Club and Drama Club go to California to shoot important scenes for their movie. However, when it's revealed that Oliver left for New York, McQuaid offers to take his role.
In Oliver's absence, Emaline starts acting and dressing differently and at the motel that night, she tells Kate that she's lucky she can just be herself because she was afraid of who she was now without Oliver. Emaline then admits she was jealous of Kate, while Kate admits that she finds Emaline attractive and the two almost kiss before being interrupted. Meanwhile, Kate tracks down Luke's father at a Blockbuster and takes him to see him, however, he quickly leaves and becomes angry at Kate.
9 'My Friends Have Been Eaten by Spiders' Michael Mohan Noelle Valdivia February 16, 2018 ( 2018-02-16) Returning home from his trip, Luke discovers that his mother and Ken have been seeing each other, and proceeds to react angrily to it, causing Sherry to call off their relationship. Luke later becomes frustrated after footage of the film was edited without his permission. Emaline and Kate talk, and Emaline asks if Kate meant what she said at the motel, to which Kate says she did and both of them admit their feelings towards each other. Kate soon realizes Luke had something to do with their parents breakup and proceeds to have a talk with him.
She tell him about her favorite memory of her mom, a day when she took her to the country fair. Kate then tells him that later that day, her mom killed herself by jumping off the bridge they were standing on and expresses anger at Luke for whatever he did to screw up her father's happiness.
Meanwhile, McQuaid plans to ask out Emaline following their kiss during the movie shoot. 10 'We Were Merely Freshmen' Michael Mohan Ben York Jones & Michael Mohan February 16, 2018 ( 2018-02-16) Luke, last minute, re-shoots and edits the movie following Kate's words to him and hatches a plan to get his mother and Ken back together. Kate realizes the changed ending is about them, and Luke finally realizing that they're just friends. Kate expresses her gratitude to Luke, and they make amends and Luke apologizes to his mother following the film. After the screening, Emaline takes Kate back to the auditorium and they dance to on the stage. McQuaid, who builds up the courage to ask Emaline out, walks in on them kissing, and walks out, dejected.
Afterwards, Kate, Ken, Sherry, and Luke go and get pizza. The season ends with Luke's father, Leroy, turning up at the door.
Production Although set in Boring, a real town located just outside the, filming for the series took place in and proper, in summer 2017. The crew managed to film in a real for a scene in episode eight, which eventually closed after they finished shooting. Reception Everything Sucks!
Received mixed to positive reviews from critics. Gave the first season an approval rating of 72% based on 47 reviews, and a rating of 6.1/10.
The site's critical consensus states, 'A flawed series that ticks off all the nostalgia boxes, Everything Sucks! Still manages to tug at the heartstrings.' Review aggregator gave the first season a of 62 out of 100 based on 19 critics, indicating 'generally favorable reviews'. The show is frequently compared to, as well as. Everything Sucks! Was criticized for its over-the-top use of tropes, sometimes unrealistic situations, as well as not developing its supporting characters.
However, the coming out storyline and the performances of the ensemble cast, particularly Winston and Kennedy, received much praise. Emine Saner from wrote that the creators 'took the idea of nostalgia and teenhood so far they just ended up repeating tropes', however praised Kate's storyline as well as Winston and Kennedy's performances. On the other hand, Jen Chaney of gave Everything Sucks! A positive review, praising its 'treatment of its young characters', and once again, praised Kennedy and Winston's performances. However, she did criticize some dialogue choices, some of the music, and the under developed supporting characters. Caroline Framke of said, that it 'takes too long to figure out its twist on a typical coming-of-age romance.
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