Category: Poems

I am a man, upo da land, I am a selkie i da sea. 1 ‘How far have you come?’ she asked when we arrived. ‘As far as it’s possible to go’, I sighed, ‘And from what feels like another country.’ And to all her other questions I replied: ‘Like a lizard crawling out of … Continue reading The Cantref of Pebidiog

in memoriam Brian Taylor Back again, but for how long In this brief respite from incarceration? Air and sea now banned to us By an Iron Curtain of regulations, Locked in a land abandoned To the Health-and-Safety Inquisition. In punishment for what crime Have these Furies of our madness descended? In what still unburied corpse … Continue reading Freedom Day

Dedicated to the memory of Ian Tomlinson (7 February, 1962—1 April, 2009) and the 1,772 people who have died after contact with the police in England and Wales between 1990 and 2020, for not one of whose deaths has a police officer been convicted. 1 P.C. Simon Harwood killed Ian Tomlinson With a standard-issue extendable … Continue reading The Unlawful Killing of Ian Tomlinson

1 ‘Would you mind not parking on our land?’ She said, as we walked back to the car — The land in question being the grassy verge Of a lane marked ‘private’ and leading to A country pile called ‘Wilmshurst Cottage’. In an estate agents’ evaluation (I researched online later that evening) Now the most … Continue reading Parking in Fletching

‘I am getting tough on these thugs.’ — The Rt Hon. Priti Patel, Home Secretary She said there is no reason But the truth was plain to see When Piccadilly was a circus And Eros a chimney sweep And boys from Southend-on-Sea Could make music of the spheres In that brief decade of hope A … Continue reading The Battle of Hyde Park

Though not Jewish, Irish or Black I nonetheless would refuse To drink in a pub that proclaimed: ‘No Irish, no Blacks and no Jews.’ Everyone has the choice to make Principled or expedient: To comply with discrimination Or civil disobedience. The Yellow Star, ‘whites-only’ bar, Countries where women are veiled Detained ‘illegal aliens’ Julian Assange … Continue reading The Nuremberg Defence

‘And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.’  – Revelation, 17: 18 She’s spread her legs, Pulled up her skirt and pulled down her knickers. She’s giving me that ‘come-hither’ look, Her wet tongue pressed against white teeth, Just like in the website photos. A … Continue reading Open for Business

‘He therefore prepared to attack the Island of Mona.’ – Tacitus, Annals, XIV: 29 Understanding the struggle of Britons Against their Roman occupiers From the annals of Ancient writers, Is like reading of the resistance Of Londoners to their eviction In the pages of the British Press: Beyond the justice of the rulers, And the … Continue reading Holy Island

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZZpiL74H2E&fbclid=IwAR0AQBDHk6YxfvYqwqnGzuT7TpF2nXptqbIuhgQikN8AfX852DVWOxxadQk Our King went forth to Normandy With grace and might and chivalry; The God for him wrought marvellously, Wherefore England may call and cry: ‘Deo Gratias!’ Part I The King went forth to Normandy, Pride of might and chivalry; Welsh and English longbowmen, Bondmen, serfs, were in the van. While at home men and … Continue reading Bring the Summer Home (The Poll Tax Song)

For the benefit of Mr. A. There will be a trial today on Facebook stream. The socialists will all be there Late of Workers & Welfare – what a scene! By slanders, lies and allegations, Lastly through ordeal by Puritan bile: In this way Mr. A. will be accused! The much maligned Mr. A. Goes … Continue reading New Left Revue (Being for the Benefit of Mr. Assange)