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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
Recusant
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AXIS OF SHAME
Christian Spring:
Churches Lurch Left
on Welfare, while Parliament and most
of the public remain on
the wrong side of morality.
A thundering Christian condemnation of the Government's iniquitous
welfare 'reforms' comes
from leaders of all established Churches,
symbolising the anti-Christianity of Toryism
and capitalism.
The Recusant salutes
this latest Christian intervention against capitalist austerity
the
The Creature of the Department of Whiphands and Punishments (above) claims to be a "practicising Catholic" - but the head of his faith in England, Cardinal Nichols (left), thinks otherwise, branding his fiscal persecution of the poor, sick and disabled "a disgrace"! How long can Iain Duncan Smith's excommunication be
put off?
Latest Editorial Christian Spring: The Churches Lurch Left on the Welfare Debate in a Clash
between Christian Values and the Anti-Values of Anarcho-Capitalism
Obituary Poet and Nurturer: A Tribute to Sebastian Barker
New Review/Polemic Alan Morrison: Illusion & Austerity/ Verses in an Advertising Culture
Article Geoffrey Heptonstall: Jack: a Mystery on the Green
Alan Morrison on Peter Branson's Red Hill (Selected Poems 2000-2012)
and Alexis Lykiard's Getting On (Poems 2000-2012)
Reviews 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
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
Paleoscriptologies of Poems Kevin Saving on 'Leisure' by W.H. Davies and
'Crossing the Bar' by Tennyson
Prose Forgotten People by Peter Street, Semiology by Ken Champion,
The Only Patriot in the Neighborhood by Thomas Sullivan
New Poems Alan Price, William Ruleman, Joan McNerney, Elfriede Mollon, Barry Tebb,
Sam Silva, Laura Taylor, Alan Dunnett, Keith Armstrong, Doug Polk, Frank Praeger,
Geoffrey Heptonstall, Benjamin Smith, Sean J Mahoney, 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,
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 Alan Price, 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)
NEW
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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