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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
Recusant
oppositional poetry, prose, polemic
the
AXIS OF SHAME
MAY ARGUES THAT WE MUST RESPECT THE RESULT OF A REFERENDUM HELD OVER TWO YEARS AGO BASED ON LIES...
THE IGNORANT TURN THEIR BACKS
BREXIT PARTY MEPs TURNED THEIR BACKS ON ODE TO JOY, THE EU ANTHEM PLAYED AT THE OPENING OF THE EU PARLIAMENT. THIS IS THE KIND OF IGNORANT, NATIONALISTIC BIGOTRY THAT HAS BEEN ENABLED AND SHAMES OUR NATION. A SYMBOLIC GESTURE SINCE THE BREXIT PARTY WANTS US TO TURN OUR BACKS ON OUR EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURS. NOT IN THE NAME OF REMAINERS.
Just remember:
we never would have had an NHS
if it had been up
to the Tories,
and we must fight to keep one
in spite of the Tories...
Here's to another 70 years
of Aneurin Bevan's great socialist institution!
'BONKERS BORIS' FOR BONKERS BRITAIN?
A NATION DIVIDED, FULL OF THE HATE OF THE HOSTILE ENVIRONMENT AGAINST IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES DOESN'T NEED A NEW TORY PRIME MINISTER IMPOSED ON IT BY 160,000 BLUE-RINSED XENOPHOBIC BREXITEER TORIES, WHO IS ON RECORD AS REFERRING TO BLACK PEOPLE AS "PICANINNIES WITH WATERMELON SMILES" AND MUSLIM WOMEN IN NIQABS AS "LETTERBOXES"...
NO TO BREXIT, LET'S REVERSE IT!
WE NOW KNOW THAT VOTE LEAVE CHEATED DURING THE EU REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN AND IS NOW BEING INVESTIGATED BY THE POLICE; LAST WEEK, THE TORIES BROKE THE PAIRING CONVENTION TO CHEAT IN A CRUNCH BREXIT VOTE IN PARLIAMENT; AND FORECASTS OF A POST-BREXIT
UK ARE APOCALYPTIC! IT'S NOW TIME TO SAY NO TO BREXIT,
YES TO REVERSE IT!
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...
MILITANT
...BY A MARGIN FAR VASTER THAN THAT ON WHICH THE REFERENDUM WAS NARROWLY 'WON'. DOUBLE STANDARDS?
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 Bob Beagrie's Leásungspell
Alan Morrison on Larry Beckett's Paul Bunyan
Alan Morrison on John Seed's Brandon Pithouse
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 Partha Sarkar, Chrys Salt, Robert Hartness, Lisa Rossetti, Alan Britt,
Pen Kease, Sean J. Mahoney, David Betteridge, Christopher Barnes, Keith Armstrong,
Sam Silva, Mair De-Gare Pitt, Nels Hanson, James Fountain, Colleen M. Farrelly,
Tom Kelly, Michael H. Brownstein, Stefanie Bennett, Ilhem Issaoui, Keith Moul, Ian Britton,
Phil Wood, M.V. Feehan, Yuan Changming, John Quicke, Barry Tebb, Colin James, Larry Beckett,
Sally Richards, Fiona Sinclair, James Aitchison
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it is wrong ... to imagine that the currently fashionable and approved constitutes the work of permanent importance Alan Bold (1970)
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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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