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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

Staring Back

8 June 2017 / 343

Staring Back by Manash Firaq Bhattarcharjee The eye you see is notan eye because you see it;it is an eye because it sees you.~ Antonio Machado, ‘Proverbs... Continue reading

Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

Poetry

Black night, white snow: Alexander Blok’s The Twelve

26 March 2017 / 407

John Ellison discusses Alexander Blok’s great poem The Twelve, and its links to the Russian Revolution. I came fresh, utterly fresh, to the most famous poem by... Continue reading

John Ellison

Poetry

Poetry, Unemployment and the Welfare Hate

26 March 2017 / 523

Alan Morrison introduces his latest poetry collection, and calls for submissions for his latest anthology of political poetry. After seven years of what might be termed the... Continue reading

Alan Morrison

Poetry

Asserting our shared humanity

4 March 2017 / 384

Andy Croft reports on his recent visit to Basra, for the Al-Marbed international poetry festival. I have never seen so many people at a poetry festival before... Continue reading

Andy Croft

Poetry

A Coverlet of Green: In Memoriam John Berger

18 January 2017 / 346

A COVERLETOF GREEN by David Betteridge The bare and barren treecan be made green again…– Antonio Gramsci ¶ A boy cried.His bedside cup,brimful with milkbefore he slept,... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Poetry

Like Mother by Nadia Drews Settle down, bottom set, poor concentration, what do you expect?Failed tests, predictable results, staying behindred linesLife viewed through windows in the sticks... Continue reading

Nadia Drews

Poetry

as if they are normal folk

2 November 2016 / 282

as if they are normal folk by Jane Burn Shops. Imagine them wanting shops. Wanting to buy stuff as if they are normal folk. Wanting to be... Continue reading

Jane Burn

Poetry

Poets Exploding Like Bombs: poems from the Spanish Civil War

1 November 2016 / 391

To mark the 80th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War, and in memory of the British and Irish International Brigaders who wrote poems and... Continue reading

Mike Quille

‘the bravest of the brave’

16 October 2016 / 296

‘the bravest of the brave’ by Fran Lock We will never again – in any future conflict – let those activist, left-wing human rights lawyers harangue and... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Long live those who died like dogs

5 October 2016 / 295

Andy Croft reminds us of the radicalism of the early Dadaist movement. A hundred years after the Cabaret Voltaire first opened its doors in Zurich, it is... Continue reading

Andy Croft

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Page 47

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.

Staring Back

Black night, white snow: Alexander Blok’s The Twelve

Poetry, Unemployment and the Welfare Hate

Asserting our shared humanity

A Coverlet of Green: In Memoriam John Berger

Like Mother

as if they are normal folk

Poets Exploding Like Bombs: poems from the Spanish Civil War

‘the bravest of the brave’

Long live those who died like dogs

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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.

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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.