more let’s agree
let’s agree, he says, even their dogs
are hipsters
let’s agree that our core national values
are biscuits, broken biscuits
let’s agree their poetry is as old
as their author photo
let’s agree to swipe on a new prime minister
10.III.26
New on Substack:
Two books by John Morgan
robinkinross.substack.com/p/two-books-...
Roger Cox on Day of Access.
I saw three flowers.
the law of passage
when you stop the boats
you stop the nurses*
* Overseas nurses down by 93%, overseas care workers by 97%.
8.III.26
England for the win. Lots of Flags. Pictures of Starmer alongside Trump at the final. Germany win on penalties.
nice teapot.
there were these two men in a room
The one by the window tells
the one struck from the view
I can see children playing
under blue skies.
When the window man dies
his friend is moved
to see what he was told
was only a wall.
6.III.26
"Chance of weather"
proposal for a war grave
ITA SE HABET
THAT’S THE WAY IT IS
5.III.26
The 16th century doocot or dovecot at Phantasie, East Lothian in Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Fàn taise, translates as "damp gentle slope").
A feature in The Scotsman magazine on day of access, by Roger Cox, with myself, Tamara, and Hayden. Asking what happens when vulnerable bodies access vulnerable ecologies. Photo by Sam MacDiarmid. www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/ou...
mending
this thought is a stain–
that she is too ill to cry
that thought is a stone–
when he is too scared to speak out
this thought is a gain–
that these words are their making
4.III.26
The ever-wonderful Robin Kinross of Hyphen Editions, on a new book, the erasure of Palestine, published by the Edinburgh publisher Museums etc who also have interesting looking books by Jo Spence. robinkinross.substack.com/p/two-books-...
Just Nick Robinson casually asking a guest on BBC Today if protests against the war 'should be allowed to go ahead' or 'ought to be banned in this country'.
Over the past 20 years Scotland’s murder rate has fallen by 2/3. The police Violence Reduction Unit came to recognise the roots of much such crime as a public health issue, “the culmination of a long journey, starting with violence in the home & childhood trauma.”
app.scotsman.com/story/561616...
This is an astonishing and extremely poor decision that ought to be reversed.
March
white rabbit, pinch
and a punch for the first
of the month–a slap
and a kick for being
so quick–or, in our
world, just a dozy hug
windflower
A picture of British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmoud, a British Asian woman, standing next to rows of bunk beds in an extremely austere dormitory with whitewashed walls and black curtains. She is wearing an ankle length black coat and looking menacingly at one of the bunk beds.
The ~optics~ of this image is so blindingly obvious it is impossible Mahmoud, Labour and the British government not to know how reminiscent of images of genocide this is.
And they've chosen to make it the image they promote in the aftermath of a severe by-election defeat.
sakura, for and after RAJ
there is a bench, there is a path,
there are legs, just, and there
is the poet, and they will see
the cherry blossom again
28.II.26
The Guardian typo which gives the forthcoming Holyrood elections as the 'holiday elections' has a wonderful truth.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "Once again Reform are spreading misinformation & smears, and the press & the media seem to repeat them.. its really important that the media.. take responsibility so when Reform or Farage says something they don't just keep repeating it"👏👏👏
proposal for a gravestone for the Labour Party: WE SHOULD HAVE INTRODUCED PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION BEFORE IT WAS TOO LATE.
Nationally, Labour is losing twice as many voters to Greens and Lib Dems as they are to Reform. (John Curtice on BBC)
