Remember:
in a stage play every scene is driven by objectives.
Every scene is driven by what a character wants.
drama is created when objectives clash.
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‘So the young girls, / cast as naughty young girls from the Acropolis, / left – / just with some things missing.’
Remember:
in a stage play every scene is driven by objectives.
Every scene is driven by what a character wants.
drama is created when objectives clash.
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‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
Tara Bergin was born in Dublin. Her first collection of poems, This is Yarrow, was awarded the 2014 Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize and the 2014 Shine/Strong Award for best first collection by an Irish author. She currently lives in the north of England.
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