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New Life Writing extracts from Hazel Roy's eye-opening account of child labour in Three Months in Nepal
New Section Palaeo Poetics - Kevin Saving puts past poets and their poems under the microscope
New 'Public Safety Announcement', a poem by Kevin Saving commemorating the
murdered Iranian democratic protestor Neda
New Alan Morrison on Catharine Arnold's Bedlam - London and Its Mad
New John Horder on Rosemary Tonks, Pema Chodron, Jeremy Lewis, Wendy Cope
The Letters of Penelope Fitzgerald, the First Female Poet Laureate, Michael Frayn and Rowan Williams
New Theatre Reviews Alan Morrison on Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters
and James Morrison on David Hare's Gethsemane
Most 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, Richard Copeland, Bernadette Cremin, Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal, Alan Dunnett,
Justin Ehrlich, Neil Ellman, James Fountain, David Francis, Alex Galper, Joseph Goosey,
Anthony Hitchin, John Horder, Martin Jack, Kathryn Jacobs, Simon Jenner, Michael Lee Johnson,
Nicky Jones, Norman Jope, Peycho Kanev, Roberta Lawson, Phil Lucas, Jonathan Mackenzie,
Donal Mahoney, Steve Mann, John McKeown, Joshua Meander, RC Miller, Alan Morrison,
Ruary OSiochain, Neal Pearce, J.R. Pearson, Si Philbrook, Kenneth Pobo, Gillian Prew, Sally Richards,
Clare Saponia, Kevin Saving, Felino Soriano, Constance Stadler, Geoff Stevens, Michael Thorne,
Carrie Viens, Christian Ward, Lee Whensley, Julie Whitby, Petra Whiteley, Daniel Wilcox, Gwilym Williams
New Prose Poems and Poetic Prose from Mike Berger, Michael Thorne, Anthony Seidman & Carrie Viens
New Prose from Alastair Aisgill, Jane Bellis, Leon Brown, Carole Hamilton,
Jan Harris, Anthony Hitchin, Calum Kerr, Fiona Linday, Graeme McCann,
Mick Parkin, Kevin Saving, Peter Street and Xelís de Toro
Saving Grace Kevin Saving on Burns and Poe; Sacred Blue by Mia Hart-Allison, Stepping Stones - Interviews with Seamus Heaney; the Virago anthologies; The Cinder Path by Andrew Motion
New Screen Review Alan Morrison on The Death of Adolf Hitler (1973)
Retrospect Alan Morrison on Alun Lewis' Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets
New Translations Anthony Seidman's translations of modern Mexican poets
transnational
oppositional poetry, prose, polemic
radical voices for
radical times
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)
non-conformist poetry, prose, polemic
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)
The only reason they have not monopolized the daylight and the air is that it is
not possible to do it … Robert Tressell, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1910)
