So sorry to hear of Benjamin Zephaniah's death. Privileged to have known him and valued his support - here he is at Keats House giving the Shelley CD we did together a boost. Now can be found as a video on YouTube at youtube.com/watch?v=PQqVFo… Thank you Benjamin RIP

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Will be exhibiting at Oxford Indie Book Fair new edition of my Asian Highway book, amazon.co.uk/Rime-Asian-Hig…. Also will have a spot at the poetry slam, and Keats Shelley Byron CDs also there. All good stuff, do spread the word - I'll be on table 65. Best, John

#ukraine As drones land on Moscow...
'And yet, Russia, you can’t unleash
Such violence without creating grief
In your homes, your own backyard
Prepare to learn some lessons hard...'
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#shelley #ukraine Re-worked version of 'The World's Great Age' with Shelley visionary/utopian lyrics and referencing Ukraine now on YouTube at youtube.com/watch?v=2c8ECB…

But listen up you morons
To the Lord of Cyberspace
Soon I'll tweet a tweet so true
You all will know your place
I'll have so many followers
You won't believe it's true
And then, you lousy bunch of jerks
You'll all be feeling blue

It turns out my grand theory
Of high conspiracies
Neither influencers stirred
Nor twtterati pleased
So now I'm in my bedroom
And now I'm feeling blue
Cos no one seems to want to hear
The things I know are true

I have not been retweeted
And now I'm feeling blue
All alone in cyberspace
Though my tweet was so true....
I have not been retweeted
It is a crying shame
Though my so scintillating thoughts
Would not have been to blame

#shelley Nice new comment on my new Shelley video: 'Exquisite! what a breathtaking approach to one of my favourite poets. Kudos to the whole team that produced this film . tell it was a true labour of love. Thankyou'. See it at youtube.com/watch?v=PQqVFo…

#SuellaBraverman An encounter in Peshawar from 1973 of interest in the grooming gangs debate. johnmwebster.co.uk

#shelley New comment on 'The Still Unfolding Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley': 'Exquisite! what a breathtaking approach to one of my favourite poets. Kudos to the whole team that produced this film. A true labour of love'. youtube.com/watch?v=PQqVFo…

#lordbyron @newworlds2023 Byron's Aberdeen boyhood remembered in this month's Thought/Rhyme/Song at my new website johnmwebster.co.uk. With photographs from Broad St, verses on his boyhood and 'Half a Scot by Birth' which adapts Byron's verses on Scotland written in Italy...

#Ukraine Some verses 'What they cannot steal they break' now online at 'Stand with Ukraine' page at johnmwebster.co.uk/index.php/ukra…

New Year's 'Thought, Rhyme & Song' on perseverance, with a theatrical quote from a young Shelley, a tribute to EP Thompson's brother Frank (murdered in WW2 by Bulgarian fascists) and 'Many a green isle' with Shelley on persistance and endurance... johnmwebster.co.uk

#Byron #Beatles A little YouTube squib, 'What Lord Byron and The Beatles have in common'. youtube.com/watch?v=ldi9Wt… Romantics Scholar Richard Cronin's interpretation of the dynamics of Byron's fame helped me understand the similarities...

New Shelley video now on YouTube! Benjamin Zephaniah narrates, 'Shelley Songs' feature his lyrics. Shows how his struggles proved influential - an inspirational story. Plus new song 'Satanic School' channels Southey's daft attack on Shelley and Byron. youtu.be/PQqVFoH2ss8

This isn’t #Iran this time, it’s #Afghanistan .

Where Islamic law rules, women suffer.

This month on 'A Thought, a Rhyme, a Song' - Russia, Ukraine and Freedom. Michel de Montaigne on Truth, a response to the attack n Ukraine, and 'Global Rhythm' on the perennial desire for freedom...

'He dreaded that climax of all human ills,
The inflammation of his weekly bills'....
Lord Byron quoted in 'A Thought, A Rhyme, a Song' - monthly musings at johnmwebster.co.uk

This month on johnmwebster.co.uk (A Thought, A Rhyme a Song) - Lord Byron on the cost of living, Light in the Caverns one of John's lyrics on sources of hope and the power of mind, and World at the Crossroads on humanity and the future....

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Some perspective on Afghanistan - a Byron-Biden dialogue in which Byron hints that the fall of Kabul may not be the last act in the drama....
The Byron Society Why yes, that is *my* bookladder The Byron Society of America