Category: General
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Of Animal and Other Meetings Book Launch
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The book itself is already online and for sale on this blog to the right of the home page. It is a collaboration between me, the author of the poems, and the members/artists of the Portugal Prints community, who produced the illustrations. Portugal Prints is based in Camden and run by Brent, Camden and Westminster Mind.…
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Parrot on the People’s March
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The people marching in London today were without a prime minister, or a leader of the opposition, or for that matter an effective political party to represent their interests. With jumped up fantasists from the bottom league running this nation, the people out on the streets today were giants and restored the nation’s honour, reminding…
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Parrot Counts the Cost of Youth
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It struck me hard yesterday, that issues that are dominating our lives (or at least mine – unhealthily so) – such as Trumplestiltskin in America, Brexitosis in the UK – appalling both – are actually just inexcusable distractions from issues and crisis far larger and more important – for instance global warming and mass extinctions…
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Demos Highjacked
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The nightmare Brexit train seems to have hit yet another set of buffers. And still “the People have Spoken” is being quoted in hushed tones as if holy writ, despite the lies and misinformation, despite the mayhem and pressing questions, despite the obvious, the truths that glare. There is nothing holy about this mess. Let…
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National Poetry Day
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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…
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Parrot Finds Honour Lying Forgotten Among Our Ruins…
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… 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…