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by Jennifer Johnson When the Council owns the building you live inyou may find that the front is detaching itself from the back,the underpinning needed too expensive... Continue reading

by Anne Irwin The world comes tumbling down When sense is toppled from its crown By tic-toc gasúns who give lip To the common citizenship, Their insecurities... Continue reading

After the spiritual, Mary had a baby By Janet Hatherley Set out from Nazareth, can’t get through Ninety miles to Bethlehem At Jalamah checkpoint Flanked by a... Continue reading

By Jim Aitken, with image by Martin Gollan All faces tell stories but his mean, cultivated look Is designed to suggest to all his supporters that he... Continue reading

By Fred Voss, with image by Peter Kennard At my morning break I walk out into the parking lot in back of the factory and sitin my... Continue reading

destroying angel by Fran Lock this delicate supremacist, our cipher. tonightunder the fractioned moon, we wait. we arewaiting. for the angel, rankly warriored outof soft ground. or... Continue reading

What Three Words by Marilyn Longstaff A clever app pinpointing a precise location,useful, simple, when it works: if you understand,if there’s a decent signal. what3wordssaw we oldies... Continue reading

The following four poems are taken from the What Rough Beast anthology of poems about Trump and Trumpism, available to download here. Image above: Rise Up My Pretties, by Martin Gollan, who... Continue reading