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The Brexfast After - by Lucy Burnett

{ Poem }

what does it even mean
to lie these days
and will you agree
that it is easily done

In Memoriam 1971 - by Joan Ure

{ Poem }

Certain women. And some young boys.
/ Women with some uncertainties
/ but something they knew about
/ that made them need to say something.
/ Two of…

Here’s a health to them that’s awa - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

Here’s freedom to them that wad read,
Here’s freedom to them that wad write!
There’s nane ever fear’d that the truth should be heard,
But they whom the truth would indite.

Buddy, Can You Spare a Rhyme? - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Buddy can you spare a rhyme, the time, / a line for Paisley?…

When the Times Darken - by Bertolt Brecht

{ Poem }

When the times darken / will there be singing even then? / There will be singing even then. / Of…

The Swine - by Alan Jackson

{ Poem }

The swine hangs on,
/ The swine hangs on to power,
/ The townsfolk mutter round the tower:
/
/ ‘Roast him, toast him,
/ Thin…

Threshold - by Jackie Kay

{ Poem }

Our strength is our difference. / Dinny fear it. Dinny caw canny. …

The Abdication of Mary Queen of Scots - by Gerda Stevenson

{ Poem }

Tak ma croon, an dinna fash – / aa yon wis ower fur me lang syne.

from ‘a better tale to tell’ - by Alec Finlay

{ Poem }

politicians must become / better messengers / with a better tale / to tell…

The Storm - by Irfan Merchant

{ Poem }

This might be the calm before the storm / or this might be the storm; / some are sunbathing on…

The Morning After - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

It’s those unseen things that bind us, / not flag or battle-weary turf or tartan. / There are dragons to…

Vietnam on My Mind - by Donald Campbell

{ Poem }

Gone doun ae Sunday to the back-green
/ to take her washing in, my wife was raped
/ up the back-passage by an unseen
/ unkent…

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