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Not the Masque of Anarchy

By Eric Corbett - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3839862

FOR THE MORE POETIC AMONGST YOU:

My oeuvre primitif is based on the methodology of Jean-Jaques Marie de la Sainte VeritΓ©. I challenge conventional forms of poetry through a combination of texts in both majuscule and miniscule cases, which interplay with the intersectionality of vibrant chromac...

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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

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Under August Skies

Under August Skies

 

We sat around the table Mam

but none of us got fed,

for the Corn Law has been biting

and we don’t have any bread.

The mill wheels have stopped turning,

so we haven’t any jobs

and we’re under-represented

by the parliamentary nobs.

 

So we gathered in the field Mam,

with our banners and our flags,

and the soldiers sat in lines

with their...

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peterloo massacre   1819   corn law   uprising   manchester   parliamentary reform   state murder

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