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Song To The Siren

Bad Women, Journeys & Quests, Love, Music

Song To The Siren

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Desire, Disaster and Delay: the poetics behind the mythic figure of the siren in Tim Buckley’s ballad ‘Song to the Siren’.

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The Desert

Exile, Landscape, Music, Place, Place & Space

The Desert

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The Poetics of the Desert-Place in Robert Frost, Mary Oliver and Leonard Cohen

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What is home to you? What does it mean? Is it a place, person a thought or a thing? Is it acquired through journeys? Through language? Bricks and mortar? What is its relationship with notions of identity and nationality? I explore these questions in literature, film, art and music, from Jean Rhys to Joni Mitchell and from Foucault to Eastenders

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