Special Offer by Chris Norris The State of Israel, strange as this may seem,Has offered us Iranian folk its aidIn getting shot of our ‘hated regime’By means... Continue reading
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Naming by Chris Norris Pray tell us, you wise men and scholars all,Pray tell us by what law you take it ill,This usage of what we see... Continue reading
Love and Politics: a tanka (Japanese extended haiku-like verse-form: 31 syllables in all; lines of 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 syllables, rhyming ababb) 1 (Love-Poet) Love is... Continue reading
13th October 2040 Dear Richard, I know it must be weird and more than slightly disturbing to receive a ‘letter from beyond the grave’, but I trust... Continue reading
Over a hundred years ago, during the first national railway stoppage in Britain, the military were called out in force to quell the strike. They were deployed... Continue reading
Chris Norris presents a poem in honour of Ernesto Cardenal (1925 – 2020) Ernesto Cardenal, who died on March 1st this year, was a Nicaraguan poet, Marxist,... Continue reading
Shayari by Christopher Norris In a Delhi hockey stadium in December, about 100,000 people of various ages, genders, and classes flooded in for two days of poetry,... Continue reading
May ’68: a structuralist riposte by Chris Norris A cloud no bigger than a man’s hand crosses the English Channel from Paris, and then, in an instant,... Continue reading
The Communist Hypothesis: ten lessons from Alain Badiou by Chris Norris We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign... Continue reading
The Trouble with Monsters by Chris Norris Quick way with monsters: send a hero outFor mortal combat: sometimes he’ll prevailAnd kill the beast, while other times he’ll... Continue reading