[Matt Q]

New Boots and Pantisocracies was set up by poets Andy Jackson and Bill Herbert some years back as a blog posting poems responding to austerity (economic policies of the Conservative government), which resulted in an anthology, Pawnedland, then they stopped. Then they reopened for Brexit-related poetry, then once more for Covid.

Now they're back again for a relatively brief period for poems relating to, "the passing of the shabby premiership of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, and his replacement by one of two necromantic resurrections of Thatcher in the form of Truss or Sunak".

Anyway, thought this might be of interest, since unlike the US, there's very few venues for current events poetry in UK. Also, they're form-friendly. And they've published a couple of mine (one Brexit, one Covid), so clearly they have taste

I hope this is the right forum for this, if not would a kindly mod please move it to the right one.

Matt

Can you believe it's been two long years since, exhausted by relentless bad news, we mothballed New Boots and Pantisocracies and took up fishing instead, never to catch anything but Covid from that day to this? We certainly can. Don’t get us started on January the 6th or Vlad the Invader…

However, short of a badly-organised coup (and we’re not putting that past him), it’s looking like the labyrinthine and venal political events of the last several months will lead to the passing of the shabby premiership of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, and his replacement by one of two necromantic resurrections of Thatcher in the form of Truss or Sunak, whichever one is least unsuccessful.

We, waking from uneasy dreams here under the mountain at Schloss Neubootzenstein with Thomas the Rhymer and his crew of blockheads, feel that neither of these momentous occurrences should go unremarked upon by the literary community, whatever that is. We therefore invite your poetic responses for our DePfeffelschrift.

Please email your work to gudeandgodlie@gmail.com by 21st August at the latest and we'll publish the best of what we receive in the leadup to the succession on September 5th. If that doesn’t work we’ll publish the worst. Remember the words of Harold Wilson - a week is a long time in politics, and a month is even shorter. Stop reading this and start writing!