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Socialist Workers Party condemn Kevin Higgins poem

Andrei Zhdanov | 10.07.2008 23:29

The Socialist Workers Party have strongly condemned a poem by Kevin Higgins.

The Socialist Workers Party have strongly condemned a poem by Kevin Higgins.
The poem, ‘Firewood’, was apparently a response to an article in Socialist Worker about the crisis in Darfur.

Read Galway Socialist Workers Party’s letter to the editor of The Galway Advertiser at
 http://www.galwayadvertiser.ie/content/index.php?aid=11358

Read the article their letter is in response to at
 http://www.galwayadvertiser.ie/content/index.php?aid=11220

for more, including a recent 'Red Banner' magazine review of the book the poem appears in at  http://www.salmonpoetry.com/timegentlemen.html





Andrei Zhdanov

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Poetry critics now?

11.07.2008 01:36

ROFLOL!

You're setting up as poetry critics now? Having had such poor success applying ideology to political analysis you want to try it in another field?

"It was problematic to label the conflict “genocide” in as much as such a term did not convey the complexity of tensions, political overspills, civil war, shifting alliances"

IDIOTS! You haven't a clue what "truth" means in poetry. You are SUPPOSED to judge the rightness or wrongness of a word in a poem by the sound, the rhythm, the rhyme (if any). Tjhe OVERALL "truth" of the poem might be a factor IF the poem is intended to serve some cause IN ADDITION to artistic merit.

Get it? No matter how correct the ideology a piece of doggeral does not make a good poem.

Mike Novack
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