IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Poetry with a political bite

· Socialist Challenge No. 84, 22 February 1979 · p. 15 of the scan · 220 words

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page 15 of the scan

Translated by Stuart Hood John Calder, £4.95 S seems TCSUILS - exile publicised) imaginative writing.

CHLY • prevenung This is the scab-picking muster as 100. Poems Without a Country, by OMETIMES almost that needs -one or Its - to produce good The failures and problems of the class struggle should concentrate the minds of writers as well as politicians.

The international class struggle has yet to achieve its goal - socialism.

"human predicament" than the endless existential that usually passes 'profundity" in much The wheels that turned over the one man's body were not the same as the wheel turned by the second man's hands: he was unsighted, there was no purpose lt was lust unal someone was driving the man who was driving the lorry (it may have revealed itself contempt, without his even really knowing he was being driven.

You might even say that the victim who survived knew less about who was driving him than the dead victim will know about the third man (a stranger, but a man in the same job) who must now drive him slowly to the cemetery. writing poetry to some sharp-edged glances at the left.

Thought-provoking, ironic very funny, these poems will freshen COLIN SMITH work. and gets encore production brigade arrival in the hills of the manure collectors'

← Fulli or envy for the uterusThe manure collectors are here! →

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