Wednesday 1 September 2010

Emergency Verse

Anyone lamenting the absence of 'state of the nation' writing to challenge the prevailing political orthodoxy of austerity and hard-nosed welfare reform need despair no longer - Gordon James, The Guardian

Poetry in the defence of the Welfare State from Michael Horowitz, Michael Rosen, Bill Greenwell, Ken Worpole, Debjani Chatterjee, Mario Petrucci, Sebastian Barker, Judith Kazantzis, Victoria Field, Robert Ilson, Barry Tebb, Alexis Lydiard, Julie Whitby, Brenda Williams, Alan Corkish, Jim Bennett, Prakash Kona, Andy Croft, Sally Richards, John O'Donoghue, Peter Street, Tom Kelly, Keith Armstrong, Steve O'Brien, Sam Smith, Alan Dent, David Kessel, N S Thompson, Gwilym Williams (that's me), Alan Morrison (that's Alan in the photo below) and more than 70 other concerned poets...

This 300-page poetry book is downloadable for only 2.99p at the RECUSANT (sidebar A-Z LINKS>>>). Get it and get it NOW! and Save the Welfare State.

The first great UK political anthology of 2010 is shaping up to be 'Emergency Verse' - Todd Swift, Eyewear
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We're trying to prove poetry can make things happen - Alan Morrison
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I warmly welcome 'Emergency Verse' - Caroline Lucas MP

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A 'POETRY KIT' BOOK OF THE MONTH (SEPTEMBER 2010)
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4 comments:

  1. Shall do so forthwith. Hope the wasp sting has gone down.

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  2. Need more than a Welfare State...

    Hope you agree.......!

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  3. Thanks, Pat! I've never had such a bad reaction from a wasp sting. Good job it was only finger!

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  4. Satyapal,
    I believe I can hear my grandparents turning in their graves. They who sacrificed for their children and for future generations. Well the cynical politicians fiddling their way from one financial trick to the next will send it all sinking faster than the Titanic, and we'll have to remortgage our houses to pay the doctors. The American system, kind of. MacWelfare, if you like.
    Need more, Satyapal, yes indeed it is so. More vision is what we need.

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