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RICHARD III isn’t the only thing to have been dug up of late. Ranting verse, a style of immediate, angry, political poetry has also been getting a dusting off, and it’s in better health than limp Dick.
Poet and Well Versed contributor Tim Wells has been exploring the history of this 1980s poetic tirade on his Stand Up and Spit blog, and now a series of gigs, talks and an exhibition is underway.
Readers of our Well Versed column will know that poetry and politics often buy each other a round, and many of the poets will be familiar to our readers: Attila the Stockbroker, John Cooper Clarke, Salena Godden, Tim Wells, Janine Booth and Linton Kwesi Johnson (LKJ) among many, many others. Attila is still a very active poet, as readers of his regular Morning Star column will be more than aware.
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