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Category: Politics

The Anti-Refugee Bill explained

Happy new year, everyone. I am interrupting my current series of Lifesaving Lines post to encourage you to watch a … More

Anti-Refugee Bill, Migrants, Nationality and Borders Bill, politics, Priti Patel, Refugees

Lifesaving Lines: Indelible, Miraculous, by Julia Darling

I have been thinking a lot about the poetry of Julia Darling this week. Her work became essential to me … More

Amos Trust, Anti-Refugee Bill, breast cancer, Cancer, Freedom From Torture, Israel Palestine, Julia Darling, Lifesaving Lines, Poems, Poetry, Poets, politics

Ourselves again

Tollund That Sunday morning we had travelled far. We stood a long time out in Tollund Moss: The low ground, … More

Lifesaving Poems, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Seamus Heaney, Tollund, US Election 2020, US Politics

Weather vs climate (LentBlog38)

The main difference between weather and climate is the timescale that they each refer to. Weather describes the conditions of the … More

Austerity, Brexit, Climate Change, Climate Change Anxiety, Climate Change Grief, Cyclone Idai, ERG, Facebook, Jeremy Corbyn, politics, Theresa May

On Diane Abbott and Assange -Meditation on a line by Anne Lamott (LentBlog37)

  There’s an old Mel Brooks routine where the psychiatrist tells his patient, “Listen to your broccoli, and your broccoli … More

Anne Lamott, anti-Semitism, Assange, Bird by Bird, Brexit, Chelsea Football Club, Climate Change, Climate Change Grief, Diane Abbott, Julian Assange, Labour, politics, Racism

From Brussels With Love (LentBlog32)

Well, by tomorrow night, we might be out. Crashed out with no deal or sailing into a bright future presaged … More

Brexit, Brian Eno, Creativity, Education, From Brussels With Love, Harold Budd, Listening to Music, Music, politics, Richard Jobson, The Durutti Column

My Brexit week off (LentBlog25)

  I’ll admit it straight away: I didn’t last the whole week. Sometime on Friday evening I switched the radio … More

Being a Poet, Brexit, Climate Change, Life Lessons, Mark Hollis, mindfulness, New Grass, politics, Presence, Talk Talk, The Durutti Column

Why I can’t vote Labour at the next election (LentBlog12)

I never wanted to have to say this. I never imagined I would. But I have finally lost the plot … More

anti-Semitism, Ben Bradshaw, Brexit, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell, Labour, Life Lessons, People’s Vote, politics

Why must we write?

The poem that came into my mind on waking up this morning and hearing the General Election result is Mark … More

Being a Poet, Being a Writer, Being Creative, Creative Process, General Election 2015, Jab, Life Lessons, Mark Halliday, Poems, Poetry, Poets, politics, reading poems, Reading Poetry, Teaching Poetry, Teaching Writing, The Missing Poem, Trusting in the Process, Why Must We Write?, Writing, Writing Poetry, Writing Process

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