‘A famished child peers through a bullet-hole’: Carol Ann Duffy’s poem about the Trump banquet - and Gaza
The former poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, has written a poem about US president Donald Trump’s state visit to Britain that compares the lavish menu at the ceremonial banquet at Windsor castle to the plight of besieged and starving Palestinians in Gaza. King Charles hosted a state banquet for 160 guests in Windsor Castle’s St George’s Hall on Wednesday evening, at which Trump and Charles gave speeches.
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