Unrelated Incidents

Unrelated Incidents

Unrelated Incidents is a series of poems by Tom Leonard. One of the more well-known of this series is "The Six o'clock news" where the poem takes the form of a Glaswegian reading the news autocue like a BBC newsreader.

As a newsreader would normally speak in Received pronunciation, the strong Scottish accent and dialect words makes the poem appear difficult to understand to a reader who is not from that area of United Kingdom.

The poem tackles prejudice based upon the accents with which people speak.

Links

* [http://tomleonard.co.uk/sixoclock.shtml Tom Leonard's web site with Six o'clock news]


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