Fourteen Years Fourteen years have torn the nation’s soul,Ripped it apart & warped it with hate,History will recount the Tory toll. Austerity, Brexit, Windrush, Grenfell,Atos, Partygate, Do... Continue reading
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White Phosphorus A Ghazal for Gaza written on 5th November 2023 All Hallows’ Eve 2023, tenth anniversaryOf my mother’s passing from Huntington’s Disease; Outside the half-curtained living... Continue reading
“Salty Terms” to Deter Asylum Seekers (An extended villanelle or ‘villanelle-vague’) “If they don’t like barges then they should f*** off back to France” ... Continue reading
Alan Morrison introduces his republican poetry collection published by Culture Matters in time for the Coronation. [Note: This article was originally published on 5 May 2023]. One... Continue reading
I’ve known journalist and lecturer Jan Goodey for many years and was shocked and saddened to learn he had been sentenced last November to a six-month jail... Continue reading
Green Hauntings draws selections from four of Alan Morrison’s first six full volumes of poetry: The Mansion Gardens (2006), A Tapestry of Absent Sitters (2009), Blaze a Vanishing... Continue reading
Almost incomprehensibly, radical poet, psychogeographer, poetry historian, activist, visionary and devout Blakean, Niall McDevitt, passed away on Thursday 29 September 2022 at just 55 years of age.... Continue reading
Borrowed Rainbows For Niall McDevitt (above), poet and republican22/02/1967 – 29/09/2022 The day Elizabeth Windsor passedA double rainbow was visibleArcing over Buckingham Palace—Supposedly a benevolent omenOf transformation,... Continue reading
It is with deep sadness that I write of the death of lifelong poet, mental health activist, and dear friend, David Kessel, who passed away on 8th... Continue reading
Knight of the Gutter (aka Iain Duncan Smith’s Got a Knighthood) by Alan Morrison The media smeared Jeremy Corbyn for good,Ensured a catastrophic election result,A thumping majority... Continue reading
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