Tag: Hiroshima
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Hibakusha – never forget
Joycelyn Simms’ extraordinary poems about the Hibakusha – those affected (in so many terrible ways) by the nuclear detonations at Hiroshima and Nagasaki were inspired by ‘a thousand paper cranes and lanterns floating on the river Ota’, and by John Hersey’s book, Hiroshima – and then, when the poem Grapple Y was published by the […]
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Tickling the Dragon
It’s time to re-visit that process, to put the human, the personal, the political back in – time to face the mushroom cloud.