The Guardian • poetry
Issue #2092
Remembering Mahmoud Darwish, Palestine’s poetic voice
Mahmoud Darwish’s poems are ever relevant to the conditions of Palestinians, particularly now in Gaza. Indlieb Farazi Saber The beauty of Gaza is that our...
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Issue #2128
Poetry for the many
No one puts their children in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land. No one would choose days and nights in the...
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Issue #2132
Poetry for the Many
Love of poetry has been a common feature among socialists since Marx and Engels’ admiration for the likes of Shakespeare, Byron, Percy Shelley, John Keats,...
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Issue #2205
Nat Seeligson’s ‘Symphony for Peace’ (1953)
In 1953, the Communist poet Nattie Seeligson published a long epic poem Symphony for Peace: A Dramatic Poem in Four Movements. The publisher was Current...
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Issue #2171
Poetry, class, and the individual
One’s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy...
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