As a (white) Scot living in Glasgow, it’s only too clear that the belief Scotland is less racist than England has to be treated cautiously. Yes we have a more welcoming government, and there are lots of postives such as the successful protests last year against home office dawn raids to remove asylum seekers. HoweverContinue reading “Slave Sonnets”
Category Archives: Poems
Scaffolding
the trick is to be at your windows on every floor getting you to notice erecting a scaffolding of language, a joisted latticework of syntax onto which you can climb out of the windows of your terraced tenements trusting to its strength enough to walk along these planks and meet the neighbours climbing out asContinue reading “Scaffolding”