Sedgemoor -52 poem collection by Malcolm Povey from 2006
Interview with A Poet Reading History Here, on the beach, west of the Cobb, They landed, Monmouth and 82 men. Eager to free England, Not sure how, A bit like Clinton in Kosovo. Hoping for a rising; Riding out of the West; Hoping old Jamie Milosevice Would do the decent, hand over His land to the Proddy dog, Hoping. In a previous post I quoted from Malcolm Povey's poetry collection 'Sedgemoor', from 2006, published by Smokestack Books . Malcolm also has another collection of poetry 'Missing' , about the illness and loss of his wife Jackie from breast cancer ( 2016- also available from 'Smokestack') , and his most recent poems feature in the magazine Acumen Malcolm's poetry is stark, very visual , no word is wasted. Hard hitting with a great sense of humanity. And ' Sedgemoor' looks at the events of 1685, and finds strange parallels with the early 21st century