''Unrelated Incidents'' is a series of poems by Tom Leonard. Written in 1976, One of the better-known of this series is "The Six o'clock News".

''The Six o'clock news''

The poem "The Six o'clock News" tackles working-class alienation, using the device of a

Glaswegian The Glasgow dialect, popularly known as the Glasgow patter or Glaswegian, varies from Scottish English at one end of a bipolar linguistic continuum to the local dialect of West Central Scots at the other. Therefore, the speech of many Glaswegian ...

speaking as a

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newsreader, with what is certainly not a

received pronunciation Received Pronunciation (RP) is the Accent (sociolinguistics), accent traditionally regarded as the Standard language, standard and most Prestige (sociolinguistics), prestigious form of spoken British English. For over a century, there has been ...

accent. John Corbett, writing on the

Association for Scottish Literary Studies The Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) is a Scottish educational charitable organization, charity, founded in 1970 to promote and support the teaching, study and writing of Scottish literature. Its founding members included the Sco ...

website, asserts that "The whole point of his poem(in which the six o’clock news is read in a Glasgow accent) is not to burlesque the rules of decorum, but, by inverting them, to challenge head-on the social structures and attitudes which maintain them."

References

External links

Tom Leonard's website with "The Six o'clock News".
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