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Peterloo
Here is my set recorded live today in memory of Peterloo at Manchester's Peterloo Soapbox (outside Manchester's Home) containing two new poems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjruu7HGc0E&t=13s
Friday 16th August 2019 9:25 pm
August 2019 Collage Poem - 'Washed Out to Sea'
Hypnotic Methodist Tingling
A sea of souls awaiting slaughter for freedom
Mermaid, just say no
On a darksome day we skipped to death
Marked by a felt-tipped pen
There is sadness, but not without hope
Samuel Bamford is protesting
In Hong Kong
Filming on his smart phone, filming,
Sharing, filming, sharing. Hoping it
Won’t be edited out, won’t be his ...
Tuesday 13th August 2019 6:50 am
Assembly
Late September, summershine,
fifty thousand pair of feet
hit the streets of Manchester;
Assembly of the People
come to call on Cameron.
Come to cry, come to shout,
from Inverness to Somerset.
Fifty thousand mouths assault
the air in Oxford Road,
to stop the cuts today, to say
We did not give permission to sell the Welfare State.
The ...
Wednesday 2nd October 2013 10:52 am
Peterloo
In the end
It meant absolutely nothing
Once the killing
And the butchery started.
The collective voice of 80,000 people
Who had marched
For hours and hours
Meant absolutely nothing
When they were cut down
Like cattle by the score.
Everybody had arrived in a
Disciplined and organised contingent
Like a troop of soldiers
From the hills
And the outskirts
But ran ...
Saturday 17th August 2013 11:15 am
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