Hi Ho Hi Ho Trident’s Got to Go
On YouTube a 60’s newsreel. A black and white Dunoon. A smartly dressed Ban the Bomber waves a To Hell with Polaris placard reminding us...
Schizostilis
Their late blooming spears spill from my beds reliable as the poppy pinned to your coat well into November leave ointment pink medals...
CULLODEN 1746- 2019
Rectangle of grey-green grass and memory Holding 273 years of myth between its fingertips Its air calling to us: Lingering war-cries mix...
Who’s Celebrating this 70th Anniversary?
Mohammed scrunches his eyes to gaze at the forever blue of the sky above the razor wire fence he can feel his quickening breath, moisten...
Helen Crawfurd’s Memoirs in Seven Chapters
From 'Quines,' published by Luath Press in 2018. Born Glasgow 1877, died Dunoon, 1954; political activist, suffragette, and Red...
BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU PACK
‘Be careful what you pack’ my daughter warned her voice the colour of bruised damsons a battered suitcase yawned on the bed gulping...
SINCE THE REVOLUTION
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Since the revolution
flowers have expanded.
Goats have invaded and continue to advance. The wild birds sing to the tamed trees:
...
AUSCHWITZ TRILOGY
KRAKOW Grey over the Vistula the mist came in, Spring still struggling to show some colour. Yet we could see how, in colour, Krakow ...
WHEN A GRAVE BECOMES A HOMELAND
We came out of the crematorium crying. Lamees and I, heavily dragging our feet with the lost look on our faces drowning in sorrow telling...
EVERY DEAD BABY IS A BABY CROATIAN
‘It isn’t a tank, it’s an ambulance.’ In the Information Centre of Bosnia-Herzegovina in London, we know We are losing the war as we...
