theartsdesk Q&A: Actress Emily Watson
(1996). In Lars von Trier’s grim parable, Watson plays Bess, an ingénue from a remote religious Scottish community who, when her husband is paralysed on an oil rig, perpetuates their romantic life by seeking out liaisons with other men and telling him about it. Watson gave the kind of luminous, intense and highly cinematic performance that, along with Hilary and Jackie refers with bitter irony to the better life promised to the thousands of young children forcibly shipped to Australia from the 1950s onwards. Watson plays Margaret Humphreys, the Nottingham social worker who chanced to uncover a history of government-backed abuse in the 1980s and devoted her life to helping now grown children retrieve their confiscated identities. Humphreys, who was awarded the CBE this year, has reckoned that over 150,000 children, variously orphaned or illegitimate or taken into care, were shipped to the Commonwealth. But Oranges and Sunshine concentrates mainly on the boys sent into virtual slave labour in Catholic establishments in Australia where many were subject to systematic sexual abuse. The Catholic Church has distanced itself from the entire story, while the relevant governments apologised only recently – during filming, in Australia’s case.Having been in a fairly deep circle of hell in Oranges and Sunshine
EMILY WATSON: I hope so. You gain some things and lose some things. You gain a sense of relaxation and range and being able to know when something works and when not. But then you do lose a kind of edge of naivety, I suppose. Bess is a good place to start. That was a lot to do with the way it was made and shot as well. The thing about film is you are as good as the film or play you are in and I think some of the film-makers I’ve worked with are really at least attempting something – I don’t know if they get there – that is of a very high ambition in terms of being about whatever the thing’s about. You take a magnifying glass to a moment of human reality and this is a telescope or something. I get a little annoyed when people say that film is a poor relation to theatre. For an actor the possibility of giving something truthful is absolutely as possible on film as it is in the theatre.
It’s easy for you to say. You did very little crap in the early part of your career.
Yes. She doesn’t finish sentences. Not pedestrian but just a very, very conventional BBC costume drama. But having worked in a place where it felt like the camera was alive, it was a person in the room, it was alive and it was looking inside you in some way... I tell you, that’s the difference between… what would it be the equivalent of? I don’t know. But it was a big difference. Another non-finished sentence.
Angela Ball Poems - News
Evgenia Ginzberg was a professor of poetry at Kazan university in the 1930s and she was arrested in the Stalin purges and sent to the gulag and got there and discovered that she could remember poetry, hundreds of poems, and it kept her alive.
Marion Jeffery reads the poems of Dickinson, Gulf of Maine Books, Brunswick. 729-5083. 7 pm Tuesday. Native American Life on the Coast of Maine, illustrated lecture by Dr. Arthur Spiess, senior archaeologist with the Maine Historic Preservation
They'd be comparing us to a prose poem. They're comparing us to an opera. Just say it's sexy and raw! Say it's hot! Britton: Brian Williams came up to me on a plane and he was like, "Your show is the best show on TV, and it's the only thing my family
the Poetry of Angela Ball
When I was a student at the University of Southern Mississippi, I was lucky enough to have Angela Ball as one of my academic advisers. During my years there, I went to several of her poetry readings. And I should tell you now that I’m not really a big poetry fan, but Angela’s poems are lovely. So you can imagine that I was pleasantly surprised to find her poetry here at Lemuria.
Angela Ball Poems - Bookshelf
Night clerk at the hotel of both worlds
Stand magazine
Angela Ball's poems have appeared in journals including Grand Street, Poetry, Partisan Review, 2 Plus 2, Tel Aviv Review, Boulevard and Kenyan Review. ...Recombinant lives, six poems
The Best American Poetry 2004
Angela Ball, Shanna Compton, Kim Gek Lin Harrison, Stacey Harwood, ... Grateful acknowledgment is made of the magazines in which these poems first appeared ...Poetry daily, 366 poems from the world's most popular poetry website
Reprinted with the permission of Angela Ball. All rights reserved. ... Reprinted from Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems, University of Illinois Press ...Perfect Information Directory
Angela Ball- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
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Ball, Angela
Angela Ball and Delia Pooey, being submitted for publication by Juan Carlos Galeano. ... Poem, "The Bath," winner of the 2006 Ekphasis Prize for a poem written on art ...
Angela Ball, Mississippi poet and author of Night Clerk at ...
Angela Ball, Mississippi writer, Recombinant Lives, Vixie, Kneeling Between Park Cars, ... However, the last line of the poem "There's ice melting on the street: something ...
Poetry Daily: Two Poems, by Angela Ball
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"Specs for Hephestos" by Angela Ball - The Best American Poetry
If the BAP poem challenge tests the hypothesis that poetic form is a special variety of verbal gamesmanship, Angela Ball's "Specs for Hephestos" was a most welcome ...