Return to previous page

Page 43

It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care to act,
it starts when you do it again after they said no,
it starts when you say we and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.

Marge Piercy

Poetry

Robert Burns the Democrat

22 January 2019 / 339

Download PDF Norrie Paton introduces this well-known pamphlet by J. R. Campbell, Robert Burns: The Democrat, which was first published in 1945, and has now been republished by... Continue reading

Norrie Paton

Poetry

Ach well, all livin language is sacred: the Glasgow voice of Tom Leonard

10 January 2019 / 335

Jim Aitken presents an appreciation of the language, politics and class anger of Tom Leonard, and Peter Clive has contributed a poem about him, placed at the... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Poetry

Our comrade saints, whose unmade faces are empty airports: two poems by Fran Lock

21 December 2018 / 313

In need of saints by Fran Lock no one else to share my slanted fate. god wasroutine unrelenting splendour; too fine and fara thing to help. nervous... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Share the segments and abandon yourself: two poems by Jane Burn

21 December 2018 / 309

The Orange in the Stocking by Jane Burn The scent of citrus fills the quiet room as socks swing from the radiant mantelpiece – a conga line... Continue reading

Jane Burn

Poetry

National Poetry Day: you ask us why we fight

4 October 2018 / 309

you ask us why we fight by Fran Lock you can make an inkblot of your nosebleed if you want to. talk and tsk and suckyour teeth.... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Don’t mention the word class! The theft of working-class culture

1 October 2018 / 372

Fran Lock exposes the hypocrisy, classism and elitism in contemporary liberal attempts to edit, erode and police working-class participation in the arts, and she calls for the radical,... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

The Song of the Low: The Chartist Ernest Jones advises the Labour Party

29 September 2018 / 486

Mike Sanders explains how Ernest Jones’s poem expresses the kind of radical social transformation that the Labour Party is now offering. Addressing the Labour Party conference on... Continue reading

Mike Sanders

Poetry

Kipling Buildings

10 September 2018 / 293

Kipling Buildings With some debt to Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ by Alan Morrison If you can keep your head when all about youAre spy cameras, a deliberate delayOf... Continue reading

Alan Morrison

Poetry

It Suits a Narrative

8 August 2018 / 304

It Suits a Narrative by Rita Ann Higgins It suits a narrative of the ‘big, bad stateand the ‘big bad religious congregations’,– Mary Higgins, CEO of Caranua... Continue reading

Rita Ann Higgins

Poetry

Two poems by Andy Croft

8 August 2018 / 333

archy says hooray by Andy Croft boss i have heardsome human beans thinkhungry and homeless peopleare like cockroaches iam flattered at last some humans beans feelsorry for... Continue reading