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NEW Debjani Chatterjee pays tribute to Amita Patel
Polemic NEW The Communism of Prakash Kona
Satire The Review Review NEW A modest and “Swift” Proposal for India’s Poverty
and Backwardness by Prakash Kona
Life Writing extract from a memoir No Bombs On 'Cei Newydd' by Catrin Edwards Jones
and To Wigan via Reykjavik - A Memoir by Peter Street
Poetic Prose Philip Ruthen's One Hundred Days War
Latest Reviews Kevin Saving on O the Windows of the Bookshop Must Be Broken (2nd edition)
by David Kessel and The Stalin Epigram by Robert Littell
Alan Morrison on The Night Shift - Poetry of The Night anthology (Five Leaves),
Simon Jenner's Pessoa, Tom Kelly's The Wrong Jarrow, James Fountain's Glaciation
Theatre Reviews Alan Morrison on Hall's The Pitmen Painters and James Morrison on
Screen Review Alan Morrison on Noah's Castle and The Guardians and Kevin Saving on Bright Star
Recent Poems R.A. Allen, CB Anderson, Amelia Arcamone-Makinano, Keith Armstrong, Rudy Baron, Richard Barrett, Sandy Benitez, Mike Berger, Peter Branson, Alan Britt, Adrian Brown, Leon Brown,
Ken Champion, Richard Copeland, Chris Crittenden, Bernadette Cremin, Andy Croft, Jude Dillon,
Alan Dunnett, Justin Ehrlich, Neil Ellman, James Fountain, Alex Galper, Joseph Goosey,
Graham Hardie, Mia Hart-Allison, Anthony Hitchin, Nigel Holt, Martin Jack, Kathryn Jacobs,
Tom Jayston, Dennis Joe, Michael Lee Johnson, Norman Jope, Dina Kafiris, Pycho Kanev,
Rose Kelleher, Tom Kelly, David Kessel, Karl Koweski, David LaBounty, Thomas Ország-Land,
Roberta Lawson, Richard Layton, Quincy Lehr, Robert Lietz, Michael McAloran, John McKeown,
Jonathan Mackenzie, Donal Mahoney, Steve Mann, Robert Marsland, Joshua Meander, Elfriede Mollon, Adam Moorad, John O'Donoghue, Mary O'Dwyer, Ruary O'Siochain, Sergio A. Ortiz,
Neal Pearce, J.R. Pearson, Kenneth Pobo, Frank Praeger, Terence Quinn, Kevin Reid, Sally Richards,
Anick Roschi, Marybeth Rua-Larsen, Philip Ruthen, Farida Samerkhanova, Kevin Saving,
Anthony Seidman, Sam Silva, Derek Stanford, Michael Thorne, Chris G. Valliancourt,
Carrie Viens, J.S. Watts, Julie Whitby, Petra Whiteley
New Prose Poems and Poetic Prose Jan Bradley, Leon Brown, Paul A Green, Carole Hamilton,
Jan Harris, Anthony Hitchin, Tom Kelly, Calum Kerr, Karl Koweski, Graeme McCann, Petra Whiteley
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
EMERGENCY VERSE
Poetry in Defence of the Welfare State
and in support of a Robin Hood Tax on the City
Selector and editor Alan Morrison
In response to the Government's Thatcherite emergency budget, the Recusant will be compiling an oppositional
e-anthology which will be circulated to newspapers, journals and Government auspices. If you would like to contribute any poems or polemical statements against the Budget's gratuitous Welfare and Public Sector cuts, or on the subject of the Banking Crisis, please email them to therecusant@yahoo.co.uk or simply click on the Submit tab left. Please put in the email header, Emergency Verse. If you have not contributed to the Recusant before, please also include a brief biog. Deadline: August 1 2010. ONLY FIVE DAYS LEFT TO ADD YOUR VOICE TOTHE CAMPAIGN! Over 80 poets have already done so, including Michael Horovitz, Michael Rosen, Debjani Chatterjee, Mario Petrucci, Alexis Lykiard, Judith Kazantzis, Andy Croft, Ken Worpole and many more... Let's try to make it a round 100...
non-conformist poetry, prose, polemic
Modern English polite society...
seems to me as corrupt as consciousness of culture and absence of honesty can make it.
A canting, lie-loving, fact-hating, scribbling, chattering, wealth-hunting, pleasure-hunting, celebrity-hunting mob
George Bernard Shaw
An Unsocial Socialist (1883)
The want of poetical power is the impelling force in the case of most versifiers. They would fain be poets, and imagine that the best way is to try to write poetry and to publish what they write. They will never see their mistake. Equus asinus still believes that the possession of an organ of noise is sufficient, with a little practice, to enable him to sing like a nightingale.
