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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Brownie on October 01, 2016, 06:20:43 PM

Title: Poems for Jeremy Corbyn
Post by: Brownie on October 01, 2016, 06:20:43 PM

Jeremy Corbyn's supporters, or some of them, have written poems especially for him which have been compiled and published (Poems for Jeremy Corbyn edited by Merryn Williams).  SteveH mentioned the book on the games thread on St Thad's;  I was intrigued.  On looking it up, I find the book has been well reviewed and there are a couple of extracts which are quite amusing.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jeremy-corbyn-supporters-written-book-8924659

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/26/jeremy-corbyns-supporters-have-been-writing-poems-about-him-and/

http://www.shoestring-press.com/2016/09/poems-for-jeremy-corbyn/

Title: Re: Poems for Jeremy Corbyn
Post by: Steve H on October 04, 2016, 09:11:05 PM

Buy one quickly if you want one; the print run was only 250, i think.

Title: Re: Poems for Jeremy Corbyn
Post by: Brownie on October 04, 2016, 10:24:44 PM

Bugger, I want three:  one for me, one for son and one for friend (Christmas).
I'll get onto it now.

Title: Re: Poems for Jeremy Corbyn
Post by: Brownie on October 05, 2016, 04:52:33 AM

I've ordered them from Amazon.

Title: Re: Poems for Jeremy Corbyn
Post by: Humph Warden Bennett on October 09, 2016, 02:33:24 PM

TBH I prefer Ode to Autumn.

Title: Re: Poems for Jeremy Corbyn
Post by: Gonnagle on October 09, 2016, 05:46:06 PM

Dear Brownie,

A poem for Corbyn,

Quote

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

Then you will be politician my son.

Gonnagle.