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I'm casting this Uh Huh Her ERA show on the TV on this Sunday late morning.
Queen of Pop!
Queen of Pop!
Can we please organise a PJ Havey syncette before lockdown easing cancels syncettes?
Picked this up in my local Tesco last night, was surprised to see it there. I know we probably have more to say about Polly than most journalists but couldn’t resist a magazine all about her.
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Not usually! My vinyls are on their way ..The demos aren’t on streaming yet. Is there usually a delay?
Orlam is the product of six years’ intense writing. It is not only a remarkable coming-of-age tale, but the first full-length book written in the Dorset dialect for many decades. Orlam also reveals PJ Harvey as not only one of the most talented songwriters of the age, but a gifted poet – whose formal skill, transforming eye and ear for the lyric line has produced a strange and moving poem like no other. Orlam comes with a facing-page English translation, so readers can follow the richness and subtlety of the original poem with ease.
Nine-year-old Ira-Abel Rawles lives on Hook Farm in the village of Underwhelem. Next to the farm is Gore Woods, Ira’s sanctuary, overseen by Orlam, the all-seeing lamb’s eyeball who is Ira-Abel’s guardian and protector. Here, drawing on the rituals, children’s songs, chants and superstitions of the rural West Country of England, Ira-Abel creates the twin realm through which she can make sense of an increasingly confusing and frightening world.
Orlam follows Ira and the inhabitants of Underwhelem month-by-month through the last year of her childhood innocence. The result is a poem-sequence of light and shadow – suffused with hints of violence, sexual confusion and perversion, the oppression of family, but also ecstatic moments in sunlit clearings, song and bawdy humour. The broad theme is ultimately one of love – carried by Ira’s personal Christ, the constantly bleeding soldier-ghost Wyman-Elvis, who bears ‘The Word’: Love Me Tender.
She normally only decides she hates everything after it’s been released though. She is hard on herself, to quote AimeeORLAM is out today
She did let slip in a recent interview that she has a new album out next year, saying “I’m really pleased with it - and I’m my own harshest critic.”![]()
I’m off to Waterstones in a minute to check oh dearTried looking for Orlam today in town but no luck![]()
Did you get it? I see evil Amazon have it at £12.21 (Moopy link available).I’m off to Waterstones in a minute to check oh dear