Challis, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1898-6458 (2016) Poem: ‘Shadow Cabinet’. In: Herbert, W.N. and Jackson, Andy, (eds.) New Boots and Pantisocracies. Smokestack Books

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Abstract

he 2015 General Election made manifest changes that have been taking place in UK politics this century. Previous certainties like Labour’s Scottish hegemony are no more. Older patterns like the Conservative dominance of England have reasserted themselves. The idea of the UK as a single country has been replaced by a plurality of national, regional, generational and class identities.

The week after the election Bill Herbert and Andy Jackson decided to chart the responses of those unacknowledged legislators of the world – poets – to the new dispensation. For the first 100 days of the new government they published a poem a day on their New Boots and Pantisocracies blog, recording life under the new unrealpolitik.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN1010 Poetry
School/Department:	School of Humanities
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/14175

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