The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
Caution
Andy Jackson
You do not have to say anything
but it may harm your defence
if you do not mention, when questioned,
something which you later rely on
in court. Anything you do say
may be given in evidence.
Do you understand?
You do not have to answer anything.
If you understand the harm
of what you say, do not rely on courts
or evidence to defend you later.
When questioned, do not mention
anything, do not say anything.
Do you understand?
ALAN MORRISON recommends a consummate, heart-warming collection about a working-class upbringing in the industrial north-east
ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event
ANDY CROFT rallies poets to the impossible task of speaking truth to a tin-eared politician
by Widad Nabi


