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Michael Blackburn reads a section of Part 2 of David Jones's modernist poem about the First World War, In Parenthesis.
In this excerpt John Ball, the poem's protagonist, experiences for the first time the close explosion of a shell.
The text is from the 1978 Faber edition.
Image: "Frontispiece" to In Parenthesis. The David Jones Society - http://www.david-jones-society.org/david-jones.html
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By Michael BlackburnMichael Blackburn reads a section of Part 2 of David Jones's modernist poem about the First World War, In Parenthesis.
In this excerpt John Ball, the poem's protagonist, experiences for the first time the close explosion of a shell.
The text is from the 1978 Faber edition.
Image: "Frontispiece" to In Parenthesis. The David Jones Society - http://www.david-jones-society.org/david-jones.html
If you enjoyed this or other videos on my channel please consider showing your appreciation by making a donation, however small, via PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/SunkIsland