Tom Branfoot
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Memorable mastery: on ‘My Hollywood’ by Boris Dralyuk
Tom Branfoot Anachronism is a stylistic quality that governs translator and poet Boris Dralyuk’s debut collection My Hollywood and Other Poems (Paul Dry Books, 2022). In both form and subject – the dilapidated past of émigré Hollywood – My Hollywood is motivated by an interwar, formalist style that is objectively anachronistic. Dralyuk, born in Odessa…
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‘In Every House Nobody Sleeps’: a poem by Tom Branfoot
Image by Pech Frantisek from Pixabay In Every House Nobody Sleeps nocturnal out here in wild escape the gauzy texture of extreme heat Walthamstow and Leyton beyond arguments sheltered by hedgerows swallowing benches we know it’s light pollution smouldering the East London fresco but think this stifling…