Bad Idea by Robert Sheppard Children's Poetry An ethnographic bricolage of fragmentary

An ethnographic bricolage of fragmentary narratives and lost voices from a future tribal culture of survivors following the Second Great Flood

It was dramatised for the stage in the 1960s

turns more personal than she expects

the savagery and storm

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Bad Idea by Robert Sheppard Children's Poetry An ethnographic bricolage of fragmentaryThere are two ways of seeing this book. One: it is a homage to Michael Draytons 1619 sonnet sequence, Idea, skilful transpositions into contemporary forms. Two: it tells the story of Brexit, as it passes through the body politic, the undigested cake and eat it of daily life. We read of the peccadillos and pet projects of the Brexiteers, the ineptitude of resistance. Expect comedy and chaos rather than analysis, how not to get the blues while singing