National Poetry Writing Month, Day #10

Today’s napowrimo.net prompt is to write a ‘book spine’ poem. This involves writing a poem using the titles of books on your bookshelf. My poem neatly divided itself into sections, based on where my books are shelved. Instead of numbering these sections, I have labelled them according to their approximate (relative) compass points. The book titles I used are listed in the tags.
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Bill Drummond: Live From The Dead Sea—Caught by the River

I thought this article by Bill Drummond was worth sharing:

Live From The Dead Sea – Caught by the River.

I particularly appreciate these two statements:

[M]ostly I’m for politics that are about ideas. Ideas that are fluid and evolving. What I’m against is politics based on tribalism, be that class, religion or nationalism. And I’m obviously against politics based on dynasty or personalities.

and

I don’t want politics based on a notion of what we think our country once was and may be again.

Not that any of our politicians will be listening…

(16 May 2015)