Poetry

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

Pigeon problem
Thursday, 14 February 2019 20:59

Pigeon problem

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pigeon problem by Martin Hayes and Jamie Thrasivoulu I got a letter from the council inviting me to attend a meeting in the old youth clubthat has now been shut downand turned into a council officeto talk about the pigeon problem we get these pigeons you see around our flats…
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For Jeremy Hardy
Wednesday, 06 February 2019 09:48

For Jeremy Hardy

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For Jeremy Hardy (1961-2019) by Christopher Norris The only way you can ever accuse a Conservative of hypocrisy is if they walk past a homeless person without kicking him in the face. It seems a shallow observation, but . . . . the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot,…
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Shabbigentile
Wednesday, 30 January 2019 19:41

Shabbigentile

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Peter Raynard introduces Alan Morrison's new collection, Shabbigentile, available here In novels and films, plays even, there are state-of-the-nation portrayals aplenty. From Dickens to Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, the rich and the poor are double acts on a political stage that is the United Kingdom. In poetry? Not so much. The…
Tan Raptures
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Shayari: the progressive power of Urdu poetry
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Thursday, 24 January 2019 10:18

Shayari: the progressive power of Urdu poetry

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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, debates, food and calligraphy sessions. It was Jashn-e-Rekhta, a three-day Urdu cultural festival, and its popularity reflects a wider appreciation for Urdu poetry.…
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Portrait of Robert Burns (after Skirving)
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 22 January 2019 20:01

Robert Burns the Democrat

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Download PDF Norrie Paton introduces this well-known pamphlet by J. R. Campbell, Robert Burns: The Democrat, which was first published in 1945, and has now been republished by the Communist Party of Britain. It is available above as a free downloadable pdf, with the permission of the CPB. I was…
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Franz Magnitz Lied
K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 15 January 2019 14:18

Franz Magnitz Lied

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The latest squib from Kevin Higgins follows these events and is a re-write/parody of the Horst-Wessel song, see here. Frank Magnitz Lied* after Horst Wessel by Kevin Higgins We button tight our leather breeches. We prance down Friedrichstrasse, everything clenched.Our comrade, Frank, laid gloriously low on the car-park concreteby what…
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It's a new morning
Wednesday, 05 December 2018 17:27

It's a new morning

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It’s a new morning by Marilyn Francis It’s a new morningpay attentionto the pig’s headand its mouthful of fleshpay attentionto the workersin stolen trainersand nowhere to run. It’s a new morningover fieldsover orchardsand broke-back pickerspicking for next-to-nothingpay attentionto the babyripping up booksin his cot. It’s a new morningover Gotham Citya…
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The Roscommon evictions: Leader of Irish Government Speaks Out Against Hyperbole
Saturday, 29 December 2018 12:05

The Roscommon evictions: Leader of Irish Government Speaks Out Against Hyperbole

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Leader of Irish Government Speaks Out Against Hyperbole after William Shakespeare by Kevin Higgins There has been much hyperbolic comment of lateabout the admittedly rather sad case of a man who had his new corneas removedby two blokes from Lithuaniaor Neilstown (somewhere like that) because he fell behind with the…
Roscommon evictions
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