This the fourth book in a series of anthologies of radical poetry from contemporary Wales, protesting and grieving austerity at home and wars abroad. The poems point to the need for a sense of the common good, and solidarity and empathy, rather than neoliberal egoism and greed - we not me, us not I.
Young Roundhead Jared Amory relays the story of his childhood friend, Gideon Wade, who early in the English Revolution deserts the Royalist cause, which he had felt...
In this new collection of poems and images, Sam Kemp vividly memorialises the struggles at 'Fortress Wapping' in 1986, when 5000 print and clerical workers went on strike against Murdoch's News International.
A flash e-anthology of poems in opposition to the Pathways to Work Green Paper, featuring poems by Ruby Bartlett, Brian Beamish, Rachel Burns, Jack Clarke, Alan Dent, Peter Devonald, Owen Gallagher, Declan Geraghty, Oz Hardwick, Bruce Harris, Tom Kelly, Fran Lock, Rupert Loydell, Steve Mann, Sarah Mayo, Christopher Moncrieff, Alan Morrison, Nick Moss, James O’Brien, Robert Punton, Peter Raynard, Sally Richards, Ness Sadri, A.P. Staunton, Steven Taylor, Peter Thompson, Nuala Watt and Wendy Young.
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Release the Sausages! is an anthology of poems, with absolutely no poems in it. It is a celebration of the first twelve months of Keir Starmer’s government - a monument to the towering contribution to socialist thought of Sir Keir Starmer KCB QC, and his decisive, principled and unifying part in the proud history of the British Labour Movement. And it is a moving tribute to his moral integrity and irresistible charisma, warmth and wit.
WaitingfortheLight is a collection of short stories exploring the unex- pected moral and ethical uncertainties in almost every human endeav- our. They follow the tradition of the cautionary tale. A photographer renowned for his images of war can only attempt landscape pictures after one assignment. He believes his obsession with capturing the aftermath of a massacre meant he left a baby to die. She was still alive when he took her picture but he did nothing to save her.
These stories were written very occasionally and published at various times over the last several years. The last, ‘Poetic Justice’, was the first to be written, in the days when we still sent letters and used landlines. It shouldn’t be taken too seriously. People who write in hope to little magazines will know what it is about, but would a successful young male poet really behave like that? Surely not.
Words United is a new book of poems, anecdotes and observations, a fleet of word-drones sent mostly to expose the brutal genocide, displacement and mass starvation visited upon the Palestinian people by the Israeli government and Israeli Defence Force, and the lies, hypocrisy and collusion of most British, US and European governments and politicians, and most of the Western media.
Words United by Michael Rosen, ebook, ISBN 978-1-912710-91-1, £5. All profits from books and ebooks sold will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestine.
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Thirty poems in various forms and styles—rhyme, blank verse, free verse, villanelle, and ‘villanelle-vague’—tackle the seismic events and vicissitudes of recent years: Brexit, Grenfell and the “hostile environment”, the proroguing of Parliament, Boris Johnson’s shambolic premiership, Covid and the lockdowns, “Partygate”, Trump’s insurrection, the resistible rise of Keir Starmer, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Platinum Jubilee, the JUST STOP OIL protests, the death of Elizabeth Windsor and the suppression of republican expression during the mourning period, and the Coronation.
In this collection of poems, Spain's troubled past mixes with the everyday routines, sights, sounds and tastes of Alan McGuire’s adopted homeland. Like any keenly observant Briton living in Spain, poet Alan McGuire can see the legacy of the country's civil war all around him.
In a series of imaginative, insightful poems, many of them beautifully illustrated with woodcut drawings by Ignacia Ruiz, Fran Lock explores the developing love between Mary Magdalene and Jesus, its relationship to Jesus’ liberating call for personal and political transformation, and the way it continues to challenge, comfort and inspire us with the ‘love that is stronger than death’.
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