The Way I See It
The shipyard painter, political activist and razor-sharp cartoonist Bob Starrett has just written a new book The Way I See It on his eventful life and times. Below we reprint one of his stories and review an essential read
La Boheme
ENO's production of La Boheme is a triumph,
Roy Lockett - TUC March 11am October 20th 2012 Hyde Park London
Thursday 18 October 2012
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Be there when London’s trees bleed gold across the park
Be there when a hundred thousand friendships are remade
Be there when we who make and build and serve become Blake’s anthem for the future
Be there when old streets smile with music and laughter
Be there when jazz and rap turn marchers into dancers
Be there when we reimagine our beautiful dream
Be there when we proclaim old truths against a vast lie
Be there when the singing and the drumming and the whistling become a soundtrack for change
Be there when we defend our health and education birthright
Be there when the swaggering venture capitalists stumble
Be there when the blame is refocussed on evasion and greed
Be there when we paint the colours of our rainbow island
Be there when everything that is best in us and our terrible and shining history is reaffirmed
Be there when defiance becomes a pulse of optimism
Roy Lockett is the ex-Deputy General Secretary of media union BECTU. He has been writing poetry for ten years and in 2010 Hearing Eye published his first collection Kentish Town and other Loves. He reads at and supports Torriano Meeting House in Kentish Town.
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