Love, Leda

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American artist and photographer Carole Harmel created the "Bird" series (1983), a Jean Cocteau-influenced collection of photographs that explored the "Leda and the Swan" myth in tightly cropped, voyeuristic images of a nude female and an undefinable birdlike creature hinting at intimacy. [24] [25] Your support changes lives. Find out how you can help us help more people by signing up for a subscription I stop outside a pub called gold flakes and enter. In the corner, four sexagenarians sit playing cards. From the bar it looks like Twenty One –Barman:

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You know how it is when you dream; you fall under a car; one thinks it’s one’s own end. There’s no escape in dreaming.’ Love, Leda follows the 20-year-old Leda, a queer vagabond, as he wanders the streets of Soho, frequenting its bars and clubs looking to pass his life away. It is a novel of gestures and glances, homosexuality being still illegal at this point, but once in private our characters embrace the life they’re never allowed to show. Semi-homeless and estranged from his given family, he relies on the support of his chosen one: a community of older gay men and divorced women who feed and clothe him, gently encouraging him to find a foothold in a society which excludes him at every turn. And then there is Daniel, a buttoned-up man of the Lord, for whom Leda nurses an unrequited obsession – one which sends him spiralling into self-destruction. This is my street,’ he says. It is like a thousand others. I see an old man walking towards me, an everlasting man. Here’s a pound. You may need it.’ He hands me a note; such a dear at times that I feel like pouring cream over him and eating him up. He really is top quality.Oluwaseun Olayiwola is a poet, critic, and choreographer living in London. His poems have been published in the Guardian, The Poetry Review, Oxford Poetry, 14poems and elsewhere. In 2023, he placed second in the Ledbury Poetry Competition. He became a Ledbury Poetry Critic in 2021 and since then his criticism has been published in Telegraph, TLS, the Poetry School, and Magma. Oluwaseun was an inaugural member of the Southbank Poetry Collective. He also has an MFA in Choreography from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. His debut collection is forthcoming from Granta. If I’m inclined to be friendly to the others, don’t take it to heart. I’m only trying to be social.’ Septimus feels the gravel on his cheek, again, in very place he first realised that he would never have a place here; no matter how many of their books he read, no matter how many of their enemies he shot from the sky. Australian artist Sidney Nolan produced at least a dozen interpretations of Leda and the Swan in the 1950s and 1960s, connected with his work on the myths of the Trojan War and World War I. [8]