Martin Gollan – illustratör

'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.

This collection of beautifully illustrated love poems ranges from protesting the inequities and cruelties of our fragmenting world to delight in the variety and beauty of creation, and from a fierce compassion for the 'cry of the poor' to tender recollections of family and friends.

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