Poetry

It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care to act,
it starts when you do it again after they said no,
it starts when you say we and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.

Marge Piercy

Tuesday, 13 November 2018 16:46

With a Pulse of Steel: Stand Up to Racism, National Unity Demonstration against racism and fascism, November 17, London

Written by Peter Raynard

in Poetry

With a Pulse of Steel by Peter Raynard Playing along kicking out their sounds, going about their business, end of 70s see Steel Pulse take the stage, yeah? Chanting down Ku Klux Klan business, crowd start singing 'gimme a, gimme a gimme a banana' I stop walking on the spot,…

Tuesday, 13 November 2018 16:39

Taking Back Control: Stand Up to Racism, National Unity Demonstration against racism and fascism, November 17, London

Written by Jim Mainland

in Poetry

Taking Back Control (ad hominem Hardcore Cathartic) by Jim Mainland First I took that Boris cunt and stuffed him arse-first through his own letterbox. Knobbed him up his fulgent niqab. Hijabbed his burka blowhard.He was on his way back from ‘jogging’ (notice you never see him actually jogging, just the…

Boris Johnson Jacob ReesMogg

Tuesday, 13 November 2018 16:23

Be There! Stand Up to Racism, National Unity Demonstration against racism and fascism, November 17, London

Written by Chris Norris

in Poetry

Be There! for November 17 Stand Up to Racism National Unity demonstration against fascism and racism, London By Chris Norris A very British sort of coup,That's how the thing began.No soldiers on the street, a fewMore cops, no master-plan(Or so it seemed), same TV crewPlus smiling anchor-man,The tabloids quiet, with…

Trump ReesMogg Boris Johnson

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Thursday, 08 November 2018 12:15

Fixing The National Discourse

in Poetry

Written by Kevin Higgins

Fixing The National Discourse for an Doctúir Mary McAuliffe by Kevin Higgins When each adjective, noun, verb, and swear wordhas been put through the purifying machine we’re perfecting,those found wanting abolished by our all conquering delete button;to safeguard our newfound purityit will be compulsory for urban district councils, kindergartens, universitiesand…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 29 October 2018 21:05

We Will Be Free! Bread and Roses Poetry Anthology 2018

in Poetry

Written by Len McCluskey

Len McCluskey introduces the Bread and Roses Poetry Anthology 2018. We are fast approaching the end of the 2010s. It’s been a decade tarred with the brush of austerity. A decade of unparalleled inequality, where the rich are getting super-rich and the majority of people in poverty are also in…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Saturday, 27 October 2018 20:30

Power Play

in Poetry

Written by Jonathan Edwards

Jonathan Edwards introduces Power Play, Mair De-Gare Pitt's new collection of poems, with images by Jill Powell. What is politics? When I was a younger person, growing up in the South Wales Valleys in the late 1980s, a far-off and mythical land where cornflakes were splashed not with milk but…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 24 October 2018 18:41

Social Mobility

in Poetry

Written by Peter Raynard

Social Mobility by Peter Raynard roll up roll up enter prize for enterprisers, why?we will see you through our newly decorated economic portals like a win on a fairground shy no longer a museum piece of shame the historical artefact uncovered by do-gooding just enoughs to take away the talent…

Monday, 15 October 2018 10:18

A Day's Work

Written by Chris Norris

in Poetry

A Day’s Work by Chris Norris Will not even the massacre of children in Yemen end the silence over the murderous complicity of the British government? They were little kids on a bus on the way back from a picnic, no doubt laughing and raucous as large groups of children…

Yemen Saudi Arabia BAE Systems Theresa and Philip May Typhoons

Tuesday, 09 October 2018 12:24

To the Wrong-Siders

Written by Chris Norris

in Poetry

To the Wrong-Siders by Chris Norris There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from…

bankers 2008 crash politicians academics journalists generals arms dealers

Thursday, 04 October 2018 09:46

National Poetry Day: you ask us why we fight

Written by Fran Lock

in Poetry

you ask us why we fight by Fran Lock you can make an inkblot of your nosebleed if you want to. talk and tsk and suckyour teeth. conspiracy and crucible, and last of all is cliché: fighting irish. Tell mehow my fist offends propriety, then name me one good thing…

Thursday, 04 October 2018 09:30

National Poetry Day: Anatomy of a Bomb Scare

Written by Kevin Higgins

in Poetry

Anatomy of a Bomb Scarefor Jacqueline Walker by Kevin Higgins Tasks such as this are typically implementedon deniable mobile phones,ordered by a raised eyebrow or nodfourth or fifth floor of an unpainted, concrete building,about which no more can be said because, for reasons obvious to both The Guardian and the…

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Poetry

It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care to act,
it starts when you do it again after they said no,
it starts when you say we and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.

With a Pulse of Steel: Stand Up to Racism, National Unity Demonstration against racism and fascism, November 17, London

Taking Back Control: Stand Up to Racism, National Unity Demonstration against racism and fascism, November 17, London

Be There! Stand Up to Racism, National Unity Demonstration against racism and fascism, November 17, London

Fixing The National Discourse

We Will Be Free! Bread and Roses Poetry Anthology 2018

Power Play

Social Mobility

A Day's Work

To the Wrong-Siders

National Poetry Day: you ask us why we fight

National Poetry Day: Anatomy of a Bomb Scare

National Poetry Day: Symptomatic

National Poetry Day: Suffer the Wretched

National Poetry Day: Fuck Off Darlings

Don't mention the word class! The theft of working-class culture

Poetry

It goes on one at a time,it starts when you care to act,it starts when you do it again after they said no,it starts when you say we and know who you mean,and each day you mean one more.

It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care to act,
it starts when you do it again after they said no,
it starts when you say we and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.