In all our sanctuaries we sit at risk

The Toad Speak of Truth as a Cage

By Rogan Wolf September 20th, 2019 @ 5:07 pm

Further thoughts on the felon’s need to lie, to keep something hidden, or maybe just to replace boring old reality with the comfort and excitement of one’s own creation.

The Parrot is Witness to an Attempted Stabbing

Mr Toad Makes a Furtive Connection

• Links

  • Hyphen-21

• Hyphen-21 Projects

  • An Exhibition of Bilingual poems in Clifton Cathedral, Bristol.
  • Poems for…the wall

• Poems and Prose online or on film

  • A Light Summer Dying
  • Anchorite poems
  • Augustin doing life
  • Cat Vies with Hard Drive for my Soul
  • Copper Beeches
  • Despatches to my Gazan Son – audio with photographs
  • Dust
  • Exhibition of bilingual poems in Clifton Cathedral
  • Fables and Reflections
  • Gazze Risalesi – audio (in Turkish) with photographs
  • My Dark Angel
  • Of My Neighbour the Severn
  • Of Stone
  • Of the Hyphen (between I and Thou)
  • Owl in Stone
  • Parrot Addenda (Distilled Version)
  • Parrot Addenda – a running commentary on Brexit, in verse.
  • Poems for the Campaign
  • Poems in Memoriam in Time for Lent
  • Reflections on Breaking
  • Riding the Hyphen – three poem sequences
  • Riding the Hyphen – Video – A reading event in the Friend's Meeting House, London
  • Sayings
  • Shadow poems
  • Songs of the Carer
  • Speak, Parrot – an adaptation of a 16th century poem on freedom of speech
  • The Going
  • To the Centre for Mental Health
  • Travels of the Last Emperor
  • Words on a Cliff

• Some Previous Posts I Like Especially

  • A Drawing of Conclusions
  • A feature on "Poems for…the wall" in an Italian arts website called Margutte
  • Can Liberal Democracy Survive our Tumult ?
  • Despatches to My Gazan Son
  • The Crime of lying to the People – short Youtube video
  • To Lie
  • To Lie to a Sovereign People is a Crime of High Treason

• Work for Sale

  • Of Animal and Other Meetings – an illustrated book of poems for sale – hardback version £15 + VAT
  • Of Animal and Other Meetings – an illustrated book of poems for sale – paperback version – £8.50 +VAT

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