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National Poetry Day

Twitter tells me that somewhere in the world it's National Poetry Day and in the threatening context of the Conservative Party conference which thankfully ended yesterday in Manchester, I thought I'd put up a poem from my last book: The End of Poetry . It's called 'Intolleranza' after Luigi Nono's socialist opera    Intolleranza Lower than vermin … the gates are opening. Our murderers are here. Suspended Song Today: Conceit: will shoot us truth construct it Instruction all Bijective the quiet fragile of this work to be silent and  Instead the listener who is silent. minuend individual receives From it, fretting is overwhelmed we an idea opposed mereologic fragility and have a collective A new audience and a presence of nilpotent unfolding of a silence to die in company null conquest of the interior of musical structures taking Different forms, shining paths as revolt. FIST. FITS. The favoured design for the future Flow