Michael J Leach

Handbell

After Björk – Who Is It (Video) [Bell Choir Version]
One Little Indian, 2004, https://youtu.be/UrSUfud_FsY

    The tinkling
   of handbells, that
     tintinnabulation of
           metal on metal, is
                    some medieval
                               dictionary def
                                         -inition of the
                                               word ‘ethereal’.        This
                                                     bell choir’s performance is the
                                                         ideal accompaniment to the melodious
                                                          vocals of Björk as well as the vocal contributions
                                                         of beatboxer Rozell M. Brown & throat-singer     
                                                            Tanya Tagaq. Whenever I hear Björk sing
                                                                about the pleasure and pain of life in 
                                                                   this remix, I feel those bells are
                                                                       tinkling for every birth,
                                                                        marriage and death
                                                                          in our dying
                                                                           world
                                                                            .




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Michael J. Leach lives on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung Country and acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land. Michael’s poems have appeared in journals such as Cordite and Otoliths, exhibitions such as the Antarctic Poetry Exhibition, anthologies such as Poetry d’Amour 2022: Love Poems (WA Poets Incorporated, 2022), and his two poetry books: Chronicity (Melbourne Poets Union, 2020) and Natural Philosophies (Recent Work Press, 2022). Recently, Michael jointly won the poetry category of the inaugural Minds Shine Bright Confidence Writing Competition.

 
 

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