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the
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It is necessary for the socialist poet to have
more impressive
technical equipment
than his apolitical
contemporaries because
his task is that much
more important. Alan Bold
oppositional poetry, prose, polemic
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New Reviews Philip Ruthen on Out Is The Word, SHARP/Maudsley Trust and on Erin Moure's O Resplandor
New Polemic Free For All by Geoffrey Heptonstall
New Review Alan Morrison on A Field In England
New Polemic Simon Jenner on Tory and tabloid "scrounger" rhetoric
Bohemian Moonflower: Tributes to the late Xochitl Tuck
New Review Leon Brown on Ken Loach's Spirit of '45
Kevin Saving on Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood Sixty Years On
Light Shining in Middlesbrough Alan Morrison reviews Gordon Hodgeon,
Bob Beagrie & Andy Willoughby, Paul Summers, Brian Docherty,
Steven Blyth and Sean Burn
New Review Alan Morrison on Andrew Jordan's Hegemonick
Polemic Prakash Kona on The Poet as Subverter in the 21st Century Avant-Garde
New Dave Russell on Tomas Transtroemer – New Collected Poems
New Paleoscriptologies of Poems Kevin Saving on 'Leisure' by W.H. Davies and
'Crossing the Bar' by Tennyson
New Prose Forgotten People by Peter Street, Semiology by Ken Champion,
The Only Patriot in the Neighborhood by Thomas Sullivan, Death of a Season by
Blake Everitt, 1980 (Part 1) by James Mansfield and Hence the Wall by Ruben Connell
New Poems Alan Dunnett, Keith Armstrong, Doug Polk, Frank Praeger, Geoffrey Heptonstall,
Benjamin Smith, Sean J Mahoney, Sam Silva, Mike Jenkins, Neil Ellman, Peter Branson,
Alexis Lykiard, J.A. Huffman, R.G. Foster, Andrzej Łyszkowicz Mike Quille, Jim Ferguson,
Catherine Graham, José Hernández Díaz, Stephen C. Middleton, Dorina Brândusa Landén,
James Scully, Angela Topping, James Mirarchi, Frederick Pollack, Austin McCarron,
Angela Readman, Sam Rapth, Anthony Mason, Barry Smith, Christopher Barnes,
Mark J. Mitchell, A.J. Huffman, Chris Hall, Jane Shay Wald, Thomas Ország-Land, Tatjana Debeljacki,
Paul Summers, Tom Kelly, Martin Jack, Niall McDevitt, Phil Howard, Michael D. Brown, Jacob Richardson,
Jim Morris, (the late) Judith Mensch, Alan Dunnett, Bruce Harris, Lexie Cracknell, Ken Champion
Archived Poems Richard Barrett, Sandy Benitez, Mike Berger, Peter Branson, Alan Britt, Adrian Brown,
Alessandro Cusimano, Jude Dillon, Justin Ehrlich, Neil Ellman, James Fountain, Alex Galper,
Philip Ruthen, Farida Samerkhanova, Kevin Saving, Anthony Seidman, (the late) Derek Stanford
Poetic Prose Sean J Mahoney, Christopher Allen, Jan Bradley, Leon Brown, Paul A Green
it is wrong ... to imagine that the currently fashionable and approved constitutes the work of permanent importance Alan Bold (1970)
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EBOOK
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. John Davidson
(1857 – 1909)
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