Mike Quille – författare

Words Aloud is the follow-up volume to Words United, with around 50 poems mostly exploring how words are used and abused, for good and for ill. There are a diverse range of poems covering Michael's family, history, education, politics and other subjects.

'Snollygosters' - shrewd, unprincipled persons like Trump, Starmer and Netanyahu - have dragged politics into the mire of illegal wars and genocide. Norris deploys scatological imagery and technical brilliance in metre and rhyme, to forcefully make the point that the Labour Party is at the point of extinction without a radical return to socialism.

The Shouting Tories is an anthology of some of the poems submitted for the Bread and Roses Poetry Award, including the five winners. The poems showcase the range of topics and poetic skills of entrants. Unsurprisingly, there are many poems about 'the shouting Tories', expressing sadness, anger, contempt and revulsion felt by working people towards the Tories in 2022.

A collection of political poems, specially commissioned and written for the forthcoming general election, focusing on the many misdeeds of the Tory party.

Shooting to Kill, the second book of poetry by this ex-con poet, is a fine example of poetry as resistance. The book confronts state violence and terrorism in the UK and in Gaza, and gives voice to those who fight back. It is powerful, pithy and punchy poetry at its best

An collection of topical poems and observations.

Fortress Wapping is a collection of poems and images about the industrial dispute in the 1980s between trade unions and Murdoch's New International.

'Airtins' means directions - in these poems, Hershaw re-imagines the moral guidance in Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, applying a similar outlook to the modern problems of poverty, inequality and wars. Hershaw uses the vivid, demotic cadences of the Scots language to express a vision of a practical, green and spiritual socialism.

These poems confront a loss: the fading dream of a collective bright future that once sustained working-class life. They evoke the quiet resilience and solidarity that lingers in the after-hours of a broken and beleagured country that still has the capacity to remake itself.