UCU Strike Poems 9 – from Cats and a Cock, by Muriel Rukeyser

from Cats and a Cock We walk the streets of the dark city, placards at back light in our heads,…

USS Strike: A list of blog posts and resources

One of the most inspiring things about being involved in the UCU USS pensions strike has been the outpouring of…

Five Minutes Of Work 4.23.2009 Attending the PMDS workshop today a 46-page page performance document to be discussed in…

Monday: people are starting to recognise each other on my picket line. They exchange news of how the strike is…

Try to Praise the Mutilated World Try to praise the mutilated world. Remember June’s long days, and wild strawberries, drops…

The Way Things Work is by admitting or opening away. This is the simplest form of current: Blue moving…

Day of Song, Day of Silence The strange crying sounds of the peacocks on the private school grounds…

Things I Learned at University How to bike on cobblestones and where to signal right. How to walk through doors…

A passerby comes up to my group and hands us a brown paper bag. ‘It’s full of flat whites,’ she…

Calling Him Back from Layoff I called a man today. After he said hello and I said hello came a…

Invisible Work Because no one could ever praise me enough, because I don’t mean these poems only but the unseen…

What Work Is We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You…

Aesthetics of Creating Something This doesn’t just happen: It happens to you. Kenneth Koch, from One Train, p.64 ∞ ‘Even…

There were just a few of us in the room, gathered round a table. I had been invited to…

‘The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to…

I was having a coffee with a new writer friend the other day. Not having known each other for…

Blind panic when the anthology I am in arrives. The hunt, ever more despairing, for my poem, certain that they…

[…] you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don’t you are…