Kim Moore

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Merry Christmas 2018

A year with Donald Trump as leader of the Western world has been challenging to some myself included but I'm sure even the President of The United States of America looks forward to the jingle-jangle of the bells, the solstice bells that have rung now for millennia. I wonder though does Mister Trump enjoy poetry? If he does then what about spoken word poetry? Will he receive a book of poems in his stocking? I suspect not. Pity. Poetry, whether written or oral, is such a delight.

To lovers of poetry especially those who have enjoyed this year's supply as posted here on 'Something For The Weekend, Sir?' we wish one and all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to them, their families and their friends.

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Kei Miller

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Maram al-Masri

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John Agard

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Fleur Adcock

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Kim Addonizio

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Mary Oliver

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Tom Clark

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Jo Shapcott

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Shea

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Jon Jorgenson

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Sarah Perry

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Bethany Rose

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Kate Collins

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Henry Rollins

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Russell C. J. Duffy - "Violation"

The stains on her sheet mirror the pain in her body. The times she said no exemplified by the orgasms she faked. To her love is but a fallacy, a phallus like a fist the sole purpose of which is to give momentary bliss to another yet discomfort to her. It is not as though she has traded her dissent for consent. She means what she says when she says no. No is not a come-on, not a tease to enlarge the swollen gland nor appease the shallow ego. No means what it says on the label so why don't he read the signs?

Is her body not her body or is it his body to rent and rip and shred in the same way their marriage vows have been shredded? There is no sanctity in their union – he fucks her like a subway train, up her tubes before pouring his pleasure down the drain. She is better than that she knows she is. Little by little, gramme by gramme, inch by inch, pound for pound, she’s better than that, she knows she is.

He justifies his actions claiming natural forces, saying they dictate his desires suggesting Mother nature turns an idle eye when pent-up passions provoke masculine impulses. Should she then throw a blunt axe at his head when menstruating?

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Magnus Mills

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Whale Nation - Heathcote Williams

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Aranya Johar

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Heathcote Williams

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Alan Moore

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Talk Islam

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Ivor Cutler

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Jabberwocky

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The Jumblies

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Molly Blooms Soliloquy

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Finnegan's Wake - Chapter One

I have tried, by cannot for the life of me, read this book. I have also tried reading it aloud but with disastrous results. Hearing it as the spoken word works well I think. The power, the cadences, the humour and the passion come to life. I humbly suggest that in future all published copies of this work should come with an additional CD so that people like me can enjoy a thing we otherwise might not.


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Carol Ann Duffy

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Billy Childish

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Denise Levertov

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Eileen Myles

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Patti Smith

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Lydia Lunch

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Billy Childish

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Matt Duggan

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Ted Milton

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David Lynch reads Captain Beefheart

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David Bowden

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D Lynch

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Stephen Hawking

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Mark E Smith

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Kate Tempest

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Ocean Vuong

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Aranya Johar

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Neil Hilborn

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Helen Dunmore

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Polarbear

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Tara Bergin

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Robert Minhinnick

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Douglas Dunn

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Caroline Bird

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