To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
“O WHAT hope for red roses/To grow among the thorns of red-top-hypnotised, populist-/Supporting proles, working-class Faragistes, Workington/‘Gammons’, purple-rinse reactionaries, blue collar/Conservatives, proletarian Tories (Old Benjamin Disraeli’s/Angels in Marble coming back to haunt us through/Poltergeist psephologists, now Boris’s blue collars, his batmen/Bootscrapers)...”
So begins Alan Morrison’s new epic poem Anxious Corporals (Smokestack Books, £7.99).
It’s an extraordinary essay in verse about education and class, deference and independence, reason and reaction, the victory of shopkeeper values and the defeat of the postwar consensus.
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Looking for moral co-ordinates after a tough year for rational political thinking and shared human morality
Looking for moral co-ordinates after a tough year for rational political thinking and shared human morality
ANDY CROFT rallies poets to the impossible task of speaking truth to a tin-eared politician


