Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Soul of invention from Satoko Fujii and Joe Fonda

Satoko Fujii and Joe Fonda
Mizu + Duet
(Long Song Records)
DURING one of my poetry classes with some 14-year-olds in Sheffield in 1993, a Pakistani boy and a Yemeni boy, Fiaz and Ghamdan, combined to write the poem Mizu — the Japanese word for water — about the human catastrophe of Hiroshima.
“Mizu! Mizu!”
Say the people of Hiroshima,
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