Marxist. Trade Unionist. Socialist-feminist. Author. Poet. Speaker. Tutor. RMT ex-Exec. Workers' Liberty. Autie. Bi. PUFC fan.
Mine, and occasionally others'.
Venue: Paper Dress Vintage, the Narroway, Hackney, London E8
Manchester's award-winning Bad Language spoken word promoter is running a stage at the Mirrors festival, and Janine will be contributing.
We've cancelled Night Of The Living Dead
To show Day Of The Living Wage instead
On strike because Honey, I Shrunk Their Wage
They've Anger at Management, they're showing Rage
When they Walk The Line, they mean the picket
It's Independence Day and It's just Not Cricket
No Terms Of Endearment, but terms and conditions
No Western Union, they want union recognition
Due to impending surgery, this event has been postponed. Watch this space for rescheduled date!
Reviewing the year in rhyming, ranting, revolting style.
Due to impending surgery, this event has been postponed. Watch this space for rescheduled date!
Note change from original date and venue.
Janine joins the bill for ...
A sisterly joint-promotion by Who Run The World and LOUD WOMEN, together offering a night of doubly-awesome women-led music, in aid of anti-austerity charities.
Part of the WE SHALL OVERCOME 2016 weekend
Featuring:
When Stanley Spencer died, was no-one worried
No matter how far deep that he was buried
He'd find a way to climb up through the soil
And resurrect him to this mortal coil?
Janine joins other women poets in performing challenging material from the new issue of PUSH. Oh, and there's a raffle.
124 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7RW London, United Kingdom
As fab singer etc Chris T-T kicks off his latest solo tour, Janine is on hand to open up proceedings with some well-chosen poetry.
Venue: Housman's bookshop, Caldeonian Road, King's Cross, London
Fifty poets have contributed to an anthology of poems in support of Jeremy Corbyn and the movement that is taking Labour towards opposing austerity, kicking out the Tories, implementing socialist politics and reconnecting with working-class people.
At this event, of them will read/perform, and you can buy this memorable collection of verse.
a poem written for a dear friend following the death of her dad - published in Confluence Medway
Around one in twelve single parents are fathers
My dad wasn’t one in twelve
My dad was one in a million