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Early Morning, West Hartlepool, 1963 - by Eddie Gibbons

{ Poem }

(from the photo with the same title by Don McCullin)
/
/ A pipe fitter’s mate at the gates of dawn
/ Is wrenched from…

The Afternoon Shift Are Leaving the Port Talbot Steelworks - by Tracey Herd

{ Poem }

The machines don’t / stop, night or day, although, one by one, / the anonymous men are slipping away.

War Photographer - by Carol Ann Duffy

{ Poem }

In his dark room he is finally alone
/ with spools of suffering set out in ordered rows.
/ The only light is red…

Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class - by Liz Lochhead

{ Poem }

How does she feel? Hey, girl, did it feel strange / To be waiting for the a-changing times to change?…

Some Old Photographs - by Liz Lochhead

{ Poem }

weather evocative as scent
/ the romance of dark stormclouds
/ in big skies over the low wide river
/ …

from Dumb Show, With Candles - by Robin Robertson

{ Poem }

Now the night has fallen, Edinburgh comes alight
/ as if each building’s shell
/ has a fire inside that burned. The follies
/ –…

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