In Parenthesis (David Jones): "Out of the vortex, rifling the air it came..."
Channel: English Readings
Date: 2018-01-06

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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