Australia, Austria, Canada, England, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Spain, South Africa, Sweden, Syria, Tasmania, Tunisia, Ukraine, USA, Wales, Zimbabwe
more impressive technical equipment than his
apolitical contemporaries because his task is that much more important. Alan Bold
oppositional poetry, prose, polemic
visitors to date
the
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)
NEW
Recusant
AXIS OF SHAME
GRENFELL IS THE FIRE THAT WILL NOT GO OUT UNTIL THE TRUTH IS UNCOVERED AND JUSTICE DONE FOR THE 72 VICTIMS OF THIS NEEDLESS CATASTROPHE, ITS TRAUMATISED SURVIVORS, AND THEIR FRIENDS, FAMILIES AND COMMUNITY
...AND YET SHE IS BRINGING HER SHAMBOLIC 'DEAL' BACK TO PARLIAMENT EVEN THOUGH IT WAS REJECTED BY THE LARGEST DEFEAT IN BRITISH POLITICAL HISTORY...
IS 28TH AUGUST 2019 THE DAY THAT BRITISH PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY DIED? IS BREXIT WORTH DESTROYING OUR DEMOCRACY FOR? BORIS JOHNSON AND HIS HARD RIGHT CRONIES SEEM TO THINK SO:
UNELECTED PRIME MINISTER BORIS JOHNSON HAS TODAY ANNOUNCED THAT HE WILL BE PROROGUING PARLIAMENT IN ORDER TO SHUT DOWN THE OVERWHELMING PARLIAMENTARY OPPOSITION TO A NO DEAL BREXIT! THE BREXITEERS' MAIN ARGUMENT ALL ALONG FOR LEAVING THE EU WAS TO 'TAKE BACK CONTROL' FOR PARLIAMENT AND ENSURE WE HAD FULL PARLIAMENTARY SOVEREIGNTY RESTORED. NOW THEY ARE STAMPING ALL OVER OUR PARLIAMENTARY SOVEREIGNTY IN ORDER TO FORCE THROUGH A CATASTROPHIC NO DEAL BREXIT!
BLUE-RINSE COUP:
JUST 92,000 BLUE-RINSED XENOPHOBIC BREXITEER TORIES IMPOSE ON OUR NATION A NEW TORY PRIME MINISTER PROMISING A CATASTROPHIC 'NO DEAL' BREXIT, WHO IS ALSO ON RECORD AS HAVING REFERRED TO BLACK PEOPLE AS "PICANINNIES WITH WATERMELON SMILES" AND MUSLIM WOMEN IN NIQABS AS "LETTERBOXES", AND WHOSE INEXCUSABLE 'GAFFE' WHEN HOME SECRETARY ENSURED THAT NAZANIN ZAGHARI-RATCLIFFE CONTINUES TO LANGUISH IN A JAIL IN IRAN...
New Alan Morrison on Amir Darwish's Dear Refugee and Fiona Sinclair's Slow Burner
New Alan Morrison on Stephen Sawyer's There Will Be No Miracles Here
Alan Morrison on Bernard Saint's Roma and Michael Crowley's First Fleet
New Leon Brown on Mike Leigh's Peterloo (2018)
New Jenny Farrell's Marxist Reading of Wuthering Heights
New Fred Russell on The Roots of Racism
Alan Morrison on An Englishman’s Castle and 1990
Alan Morrison on Owen Sheers' To Provide All People
New Marx & Morry David Betteridge on reading Karl Marx
Alan Morrison on Andy Croft's Letters To Randall Swingler
Alan Morrison on Mike Jenkins' Sofa Surfin
Alan Morrison on Ian Parks' Citizens
Kevin Saving on John Carey, Bernard Cornwell, Nigel Mellor, Henry Marsh
Dave Russell on Stevie James' A Lonely Man Circling the Earth
Kevin Saving on A Quiet Passion, Deaths of the Poets and The Bughouse:
the poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound
Reviews Alan Morrison on Bruce Harris's Kaleidoscope
Alan Morrison on Andy Willoughby's Between Stations
Alan Morrison on Larry Beckett's Paul Bunyan
Kevin Saving on Louis MacNeice's 'The Sunlight on the Garden' and
Chidiock Tichborne's 'Tichborne's Elegy'
Reviews Alan Morrison on Barry Tebb's Collected Poems 1964-2016
Alan Morrison on Paul van Ostaijen's Occupied City
Dave Russell on Wendy Young's The Dream of Somewhere Else
New Poems Ilhem Issaoui, Alan Price, Fiona Sinclair, Ken Simpson,
Sam Silva, Jim Morris, Keith Armstrong Eduard Schmidt-Zorner, Rachel Hegarty, Liam O'Neill,
Alan O'Brien, Fred Johnston, David Butler, Moya Roddy, Michael Lee Johnson, Patrick Bolger,
Francis Devine, Alan Weadick, Andrew Barnes, Bernard Saint, Partha Sarkar, Chrys Salt,
Robert Hartness, Lisa Rossetti, Alan Britt, Pen Kease, Sean J. Mahoney, David Betteridge, Christopher Barnes, Mair De-Gare Pitt, Nels Hanson, James Fountain, Colleen M. Farrelly,
Tom Kelly, Michael H. Brownstein, Stefanie Bennett, Keith Moul, Ian Britton
it is wrong ... to imagine that the currently fashionable and approved constitutes the work of permanent importance Alan Bold (1970)
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