'Schlock!' Mesmeric, shocking, and over-ambitious
Having grown up in a household where Yiddish words were bandied around readily, it came as a shock to find this one sidling in among the Best Words, Best Order poetry titles of the other readers, in the gently arty surroundings of Snape Maltings. An intriguing shock nevertheless, one that required further investigation. For “schlock” means, more or less, rubbish. Cheap rubbish, in a cultural s...
26th November 2014
