Poem: I Wanted To Write An Essay About How Great Clint Mansell Is But 2020 Has Been A Debacle And No One Has Time For That As A Result. Covid Cancelled My Essay. Blame Covid. So Here’s A Wee Poem Instead. Is It Even A Poem? Sure. I Reckon!

Clint Mansell’s made some of the best music I’ve ever heard. Some of the greatest film cues – and scores. And he was in the band Pop Will Eat Itself.

I first really got to know his work when I watched Requiem For A Dream, a film that stays with me still. Its music, scored by Mansell and performed by the Kronos Quartet, is a character in the movie. And ma…