JAN WOOLF finds out where she came from and where she’s going amid Pete Townsend’s tribute to 1970s youth culture
A Beginner’s Guide to 4-D Chess
by Steve Pottinger
MARY CONWAY revels in the Irish American language and dense melancholy of O’Neill’s last and little-known play
MARJORIE MAYO, JOHN GREEN and MARIA DUARTE review Sudan, Remember Us, From Hilde, With Love, The Road to Patagonia, and F1
MARIA DUARTE recommends the very human portrayal of Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist in Putin’s Russia
This is a remarkable set of hop hip, salsa, reggae, soul, cumbia and traditional Mexican music finds TONY BURKE
MATTHEW HAWKINS enjoys the perverse jocularity, depraved glamour and inner turbulence of the Tate gallery’s tribute to Leigh Bowery
Play the man, and not the ball.
Sneer about 2019, the impotence
of protest. Say nothing of slaughter.
Talk tough on benefits
in your free suit, glasses, shoes.
Mention veterans. Stop boats.
Glastonbury tickets trump digital tax.
You have a right to watch football.
Let me be clear. These are facts.
Your team, a snout.
Taylor Swift, a trough.
Isn’t it nice, the quiet?
At the helm of our nation’s photocopier:
grown-ups. Sensible. Beige.
Pastiches of Cool Britannia.
Your vision of the future?
A tribute act. Stamping
outsourced. Hail profit. Forever.
Steve Pottinger is a Midlands-based writer with several collections to his name. Rather than talk about his poetry, he much prefers to let his poetry speak for itself. www.stevepottinger.co.uk.
Poetry submissions should be sent to: thursdaypoems@gmail.com
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