Clerihew: Michael Gove
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Michael Gove
Spun and stitched and wove
A tapestry of policy
Of bloody awful quality
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Photo: Chris McAndrew / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)
Mine, and occasionally others'.
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Michael Gove
Spun and stitched and wove
A tapestry of policy
Of bloody awful quality
.
.
.
.
Photo: Chris McAndrew / CC BY (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)
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Herbert Morrison
was moderate and worrisome
He had an appropriate grandson:
Peter Mandelson
Peter Mandelson
could not get a handle on
The passionate, radical, principled and quarrelsome:
rather like his grandfather, Herbert Morrison
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Emmeline Pankhurst
among feminists, ranked first
Until she ruined her story
by becoming a Tory
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Henry the Third
was somewhat absurd
He endorsed the Great Charter
and ignored it thereafter
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Tony Abbott
jumps like a rabbit
from homophobic bile
to climate change denial
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Simon de Montfort
got off on the wrong foot
He persecuted the Jewish
but won the Battle of Lewes
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Finally getting round to posting this video from four years ago. It is one of my favourite of my poems!
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Thomas McColl and Janine Booth on London Live on 16 April 2018, promoting the anthology, Poems for Grenfell Tower.
Includes a video extract of Janine's poem, Bring it Home.
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Five Leaves Bookshop hosts Janine reading her poem, Stay the Fuck Home, which features in the anthology, Coronaverses: poems from the pandemic.
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I have contributed this short article to Black History Month activities where I work.
Poems of the Harlem Renaissance
- recommended by Janine Booth