Having written and performed as The Big J in the 1980s, Janine started again in 2014, after a brief interlude of around a quarter of a century.
Froms sonnets to villanelles, limericks to ballads, the occasional rap and plenty of straightforward rants, serious and humorous and sometimes both, here is Janine's verse.
Janine's poems have been published in numerous poetry and other journals and websites, including Algebra of Owls, South Bank Poetry, the Daily Mirror, PUSH, Hour of Writes, Proletarian Poetry, Confluence Medway, Screaming Violets, Poetry24, Solidarity, Stand Up and Spit, Hastings Independent, Freedom, Women’s Fightback, the Morning Star, Rising and TenFootCity; and in anthologies Spies4Life, Poems for Jeremy Corbyn, Justice: Poems for Grenfell Tower.and Ashes to Activists
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Sorry?
Is
Jeremy Hunt
for real?
Up to 270 dead is
the toll of that 'glitch'
That is
Hundreds of women gone
unscanned, untreated
Hundreds of women gone
That is
the toll of that 'glitch'
Up to 270 dead is
for real.
Jeremy Hunt
is
sorry.
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Hi there, it's Ashleigh
from the Daily Mail
I've smelled a story
I'm on the trail
I want to sound street
and your tweets are sick, mate
I'm getting desperate
for some clickbait
Hi there, it's Ashleigh -
you're at the scene
I'm in my office
and I'm really keen
To get a tasty
stabbing quote
About some feral,
lowlife scroat
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This table is reserved for The Poetry
for this pub and for all who sail on it
A villanelle, pantoum or ballad
or free verse, sestina or sonnet
It's not for a hen night or party
but for words that take note of the times
It's not trying to sell you a dinner
it is ticking out meter and rhyme
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Janine brings the Disaffected Middle-aged Women to Hull. She wil perform loads of great poems from the book, which will be on sale. There will also be guest performances from two local DMW poets:
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Janine brings the Disaffected Middle-aged Women to the Sussex countryside alongside an array of musicians, poets and real ales.
Venue: Church Farm, Coombes, West Sussex, BN15 0RS
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Tom Newton Dunn, oh Tom Newton Dunn
In charge of political views at The Sun
Trying to say it's all spiffing great fun
When you lost an election you thought you had won
#sundaypolitics
[With apologies to John Betjeman's The Subaltern's Love Song]
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If I were able
I'd tie the Tories to a table
Plug in an electric cable
And attach a label:
'How's that for strong and stable'?
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Swans are 'majestic', the monarch owns them
Geese on the other hand are 'loathsome'.
Geese migrate and know their rights
While swans are English, snooty and white.
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Back in the pool today
After six months away
Cut, cooked skin no longer broken
There is surely scope
For a breast stroke joke
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Dedicated to Martin Atkins, who asked for a poem in response to this news s-tory.
A poetry book fell through my door
And landed on my mat
I sniffed its arse and wagged my tail
And showed it to the cat
