{"id":15261,"date":"2023-05-07T13:13:05","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T12:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wolves-come-grovelling\/"},"modified":"2023-05-07T13:13:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T12:13:05","slug":"wolves-come-grovelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wolves-come-grovelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolves Come Grovelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15259\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/b389d00dbde0f89ea5c947817618bdcf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"414\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/b389d00dbde0f89ea5c947817618bdcf.jpg 414w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/b389d00dbde0f89ea5c947817618bdcf-206x300.jpg 206w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/b389d00dbde0f89ea5c947817618bdcf-302x441.jpg 302w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/b389d00dbde0f89ea5c947817618bdcf-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/b389d00dbde0f89ea5c947817618bdcf-7x10.jpg 7w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thirty poems in various forms and styles\u2014rhyme, blank verse, free verse, villanelle, and \u2018villanelle-vague\u2019\u2014tackle the seismic events and vicissitudes of recent years: Brexit, Grenfell and the \u201chostile environment\u201d, the proroguing of Parliament, Boris Johnson\u2019s shambolic premiership, Covid and the lockdowns, \u201cPartygate\u201d, Trump\u2019s insurrection, the resistible rise of Keir Starmer, Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, the Platinum Jubilee, the JUST STOP OIL protests, the death of Elizabeth Windsor and the suppression of republican expression during the mourning period, and the Coronation.<\/p>\n<p>Wolves Come Grovelling primarily challenges the paradoxes of British citizenship and subjecthood, democracy and monarchy, which have never been resolved, not even during the Republic of the 1650s\u2014a period in our history which tends to be airbrushed out in spite of Hamo Thornycroft\u2019s imposing bronze statue of Oliver Cromwell serving as permanent reminder outside Parliament since 1897.<\/p>\n<p>But for all the pomp and majesty of the Coronation there is still the whispering hope of republicanism among sections of the British populace which may yet ripen and come to cast a significant shadow on this Second Carolean Age.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><em>Morrison writes in a rich, Miltonic voice, heavy with anger\u00a0and prophecy.<\/em><br \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2014 Andy Croft<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\">\n<p><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/> <input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"YW2HUYJHM87TS\" \/> <input alt=\"PayPal \u2013 The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_buynowCC_LG.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<\/form>\n<p><b>Wolves Come Grovelling<\/b><i>, by Alan Morrison, 60 pps,\u00a0ISBN 978-1-912710-57-7,\u00a0<\/i><em>available for \u00a310 incl. p&#038;p.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty poems in various forms and styles\u2014rhyme, blank verse, free verse, villanelle, and \u2018villanelle-vague\u2019\u2014tackle the seismic events and vicissitudes of recent 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