Listening to a Pogrom on the Radio by Michael Rosen David Wheatley pivoting around a central sequence

pivoting around a central sequence called 'Genesis'

Cambridge from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century

or it can 'mock the mighty'

and inspire us

and with the relations between different elements in the work

Listening to a Pogrom on the Radio by Michael Rosen David Wheatley pivoting around a central sequence'Poetry can stick up for the weak' according to Michael Rosen, or it can 'mock the mighty'; it can 'glorify our rulers or it can dissect them. You choose.' In these powerful new poems Rosen is clear about his own choices. Listening to a Pogrom on the Radio is a book about anti Semitism, racism, Fascism and war, Trump, le Pen, and the Tory assaults on the NHS and education the stupid and the sinister, the ridiculous and the revolting. In his first