"a poem is a place you lick raw"

- Oksana Vasyakina.

 

This week we are joined by poet E.E. Jones as we journey through an eclectic selection of radical verse. Russian feminist poetry, queer poetry, Keralan communist poetry, poets of Bangladesh, Negritude, Langston Hughes, slam poetry, and some British favourites: Blake, Shelley, William Morris, and the Liverpool poets (Roger McGough et al).

 

With readings from The Incident by E.E. Jones. Plus, the prosaic benefits of a 4 day week.

 

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The Incident by E.E. Jones  

 

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake  

 

An Earthly Paradise by William Morris  

 

Dramatisation of John Ball's radical speech of 1381  

 

To the Republicans of North America by PB Shelley  

 

Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819  

 

A Song: Men of England by PB Shelley  

 

'The man of virtuous soul', lines from Queen Mab by PB Shelley  

 

The Mask of Anarchy by PB Shelley  

 

Shelley - Poet & Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen  

 

Peterloo Survivors Photograph 

 

Love Is by Adrian Henri 

 

Liverpool Poems by Adrian Henri 

 

I Want To Paint by Adrian Henri 

 

The Minister for Exams by Brian Patten 

 

Icarus Allsorts by Roger McGough 

 

McGough and Patten reading from their own poetry 

 

The Mersey Sound 

 

Baby by The Liverpool Scene 

 

Lenin by Langston Hughes 

 

Working Class History podcast on Joseph Skipsey  

 

I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman 

 

I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes 

 

"Where the mind is without fear" by Tagore (alternative translation) 

 

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Marxism and colonialism 

 

Woman by Nazrul 

 

Tribute to Nazrul including lines from The Rebel 

 

Full version of Bhaskaran piece 

 

The French Revolution.... by Wordsworth 

 

A brief guide to Negritude 

 

Four poems by Léopold Senghor 

 

Notebook of a Return to my Native Land by Aimé Cesaire 

 

The Train Hotel Paris-Barcelona 

 

How Russia's Feminist Poets Are Changing What It Means to Protest  

 

Summer. Gates of the Body by Galina Rymbu 

 

These People Didn't Know My Father by Oksana Vasyakina 

 

My Vagina by Galina Rymbu 

 

F Letter: New Russian Feminist Poetry 

 

My Sharona by The Knack 

 

A Gay Poem by Keith Jarrett 

 

4 day week experiment in Iceland 

 

"Four-day working week would slash UK carbon footprint" 

 

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