![]() ![]() She shares a Gothic fascination with death with contemporary Edgar Allen Poe. They use short lines and often plain language to describe her tortured relationships with other people, Nature, God and mortality. Dickinson (1830-1886) was a recluse, but the posthumous publication of her poems led to her being hailed as a feminist icon. “The saddest noise, the sweetest noise, the maddest noise that grows,” her poem about the dawn chorus, supplies the title for One Man Bannister’s latest album, in which he sets 14 of her poems to music (also recorded during lockdown). She scarcely left her family home in Amherst, Massachusetts, preferring to write a body of poems now regarded as amongst the greatest in American literature. ![]() Poet Emily Dickinson knew all about isolation. ![]() This show is an album release event to celebrate One Man Bannister's new record, 'The Saddest Noise'. ![]()
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