Ben Wilkinson
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‘All the Soul’s Endeavour’: where did the poetry of running go?
Hoplitodromos from an Attic black-figure Panathenaic amphora, 323–322 BC (photograph Marie-Lan Nguyen) Ben Wilkinson Fast-forward to August of 2020 and all eyes will be on Tokyo, as the Games of the 32nd Olympiad kick off with fireworks and fanfare. But among the 33 different sports contested and the 339 medal events,…
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Two poems by Ben Wilkinson
The Flower Carrier after the painting by Diego Rivera, 1935 These blooms are for the mayor’s daughter, wedding on which a town pins its hopes. Soon they’ll set long tables creaking, throng streets in hanging baskets, thread buttonholes of businessmen, diplomats. If I were a cynic I’d call them fig…