Sir Keir Starmer By Chris Norris Oh yes, we’ve known your type, Sir Keir,We’ve known your type before,Plain-dealing, thoughtful, mild, sincere –Bank-manager types, so they’d appear –Yet... Continue reading
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By Christopher Norris for Tony Harrison, 1937-2025 In an unbroken continuity from the Renaissance to 1900 and beyond, a poem within the metrical tradition identifies itself .... Continue reading
Image by Martin Gollan By Chris Norris O tell us what to do, Sir Keir,Please tell us what to do!For you’re Prime Minister, and we’reAll looking up... Continue reading
By Chris Norris Oh Ramsay MacDonald, be now of good cheer,For I’ve tidings to bring if I may;Worst of tidings for your Labour Party, I fear,But for... Continue reading
By Chris Norris 1 Quite something, bold Sir Keir: an honour rare!Scarcely a year in office, and it’s youWho stand unchallenged as one of the twoMost hated... Continue reading
by Chris Norris There’s rich and poor folk, those that just get byAnd blokes who trouser billions solitaire.Don’t fall for trickle-down, that bosses’ lie:Do something useful,... Continue reading
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
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
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