In 1949 with much of the world in ruins, millions dead, and the world still in shock at its own inhumanity the German born sociologist Theodor Adorno wrote that "to write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric".

February is the cruelest month breeding inanity from the dead waves. Mixing bigotry and desire, stirring dull roots with winter snow. In February the culture pages of the major newspapers in Sweden suddenly succumb to ‘news’ of the Eurovision Song Contest.