Unrelated Incidents by Tom Leonard - review
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Unrelated Incidents by Tom Leonard The Context Of The Poem Tom Leonard was born in Glasgow in 1944, where he has continued to live ever since. He studied English and Scottish Literature at the University Of Glasgow. His first publication was "Six Glasgow Poems" written while at university in 1967. His collection of twenty-years work, intimate voices, shared the Saltier Scottish book of the year award in 1984. All though his passport identifies him as a British Citizen, Tom Leonard sense of his own cultural identity is thoroughly Scottish. Almost Leonard's poetry is written in his Glasgow dialect. His aim has always working class "West of Scotland speech that is still poetry". My focus on "The voice: in my work Leonard has written, two buy products over the years. An involvement in performance "Sound poetry" and an increasingly explicit awareness of the political nature of voice in British culture. ...

