Tan Raptures Ahmad Zein Robson Green

Robson Green

and the Order of Distinction from the Government of Jamaica in 1999

Although the Austrian poet Georg Trakl was born over a century ago

different but equal in importance to their large family

Dante in the Laundrette is an early morning walk through hungover Northern streets

Tan Raptures Ahmad Zein Robson GreenTaking its title from the brown envelopes that strike fear into benefit claimants and the biblical Rapture, Alan Morrisons eighth collection imagines these letters as passports to a twisted Tory notion of salvation through benefit sanction. Tan Raptures is a series of verse missives from the frontline of the war against the poor and its spirit stripping weapons of food banks, poor doors and homeless spikes. Its a peoples history, from Dale Farm and