Poetry

Poetry

• Restoration Tragedy review - an experimental encounter between early music, punk and politics

  

  This celebration of 'the world turned upside down' is a perfect blend of folk, punk, and English radical history, writes John Rees

• The Rhyming Guide to Donald Trump

  

  Potent Whisper makes the case for protesting against Donald Trump

• You’ll never edit Grenfell

  

  A spoken word response to Andrew O’Hagan’s ‘The Tower’ by Potent Whisper

• May Days review - a fitting tribute to Grenfell and a society fighting back

  

  This staging of a potent poem of our times gives voice to a class realising its own power, finds Cameron Panting

• May Days: a benefit for Grenfell

  

  William Alderson’s “magnificent” poem May Days is to be performed by actors in aid of the Grenfell Tower victims to commemorate the anniversary of the disaster

• Iolo Morganwg and the making of nationalisms

  

  The fakery of Celtic myths are part of a long tradition of nation-building in these islands, argues Chris Bambery

• Walking to Hell

  

  A poem on Grenfell

• A Moment of Disbelief: Poems on War, Terrorism, and Refugees - book review

  

  William Alderson’s poems in A Moment of Disbeliefand May Days unite politics and feeling in a brilliant reclaiming of a fine poetic tradition, finds Dominic Alexander

• 'May Days' - poem

  

  A poem by William Alderson on the current state of Britian

• For the many, not the few: Jeremy Corbyn and Percy Bysshe Shelley

  

  A look at the radical history of the poem the Labour leader quoted at Glastonbury

• Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary

  

  The relevance of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s radical politics and poetry is revealed in Jacqueline Mulhallen’s new biography, finds Alex Snowdon

• Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Necessity of Atheism

  

  The second extract from Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary, sees the ferocious reaction produced by Shelley's pioneering advocacy of atheism

• Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Philosophical Review of Reform

  

  In this first extract from Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary, Jacqueline Mulhallen discusses Shelley’s radical politics in the wake of the Peterloo massacre