The UK’s National Poetry Day took place on Thursday 4th October. The given theme was “change” – which seemed topical enough. I took real and enormous pleasure in spending some of the day in St Katherine’s School in Pill, on the outskirts of Bristol. I was acting as poet-in-very-temporary-residence, a public position with a slightly hazy job description, but one… continue reading
Parrot Finds Honour Lying Forgotten Among Our Ruins…
… and knows that honour must be the foundation of any future we might have.
The Background :
This latest little poem records actual events and an eloquent speech in the UK’s House of Commons in the Spring of 2015.
For a video of an excerpt of the speech, see : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-32073791
For an article published soon afterwards see :… continue reading