The Acts of Oblivion by Paul Batchelor Keston Sutherland Jo Burns turns her fierce

Jo Burns turns her fierce analytical powers to the impact of propaganda and conspiracy theories on public and private discourse

Collected here for the first time

Celebrated author John Carey here presents a uniquely valuable anthology of verse based on a simple principle: select the one-hundred greatest poets from across the centuries

Winter 2005

“My Debt”

The Acts of Oblivion by Paul Batchelor Keston Sutherland Jo Burns turns her fiercePublished December 2021. The Acts of Oblivion were a series of seventeenth century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary speech from the record they forced the people to forget. Against such injunctions, Paul Batchelors poems rebel. This long awaited second collection, The Acts of Oblivion, listens in on some of Englands lost futures, such as those