Great, interesting, post. I taught in TH for ten years and my parents were from Stepney and Bethnal Green plus a granddad who was born and lived on Commercial Road. I don't know Peter Riley (to my shame) so will check him out. Your notes about the housing scenario and monetarism are so true. But very few capitalist states have ever resolved what would seem to be quite solveable and should be, surely, the basis of any so-called civilisation.
I've been invited to read one of my poems tonight at a Medical Aid for Palestine event. I've never done this before, so, big breath and away we go.
Great, interesting, post. I taught in TH for ten years and my parents were from Stepney and Bethnal Green plus a granddad who was born and lived on Commercial Road. I don't know Peter Riley (to my shame) so will check him out. Your notes about the housing scenario and monetarism are so true. But very few capitalist states have ever resolved what would seem to be quite solveable and should be, surely, the basis of any so-called civilisation.
I've been invited to read one of my poems tonight at a Medical Aid for Palestine event. I've never done this before, so, big breath and away we go.
Hey! Good luck! Just read them aloud once or twice beforehand - remember to read slower than you speak - and I'm sure it'll be brilliant.
And if you click on Peter-Riley-the-Poet's name, it will take you to a page of his poems about London.