Tea with the Taliban - Softcover

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Owen Gallagher s third collection of poems is a book about tribes, real and imagined the warring tribes to which we all belong. It s a journey to dystopia, from the Gorbals in the 1950s to contemporary Palestine, a close study of our need to belong to something bigger than ourselves, the shared identities whose anthems, arms and flags are stockpiled in history s wardrobe. There are the loyalties of family and friendship, the sectarian and ideological loyalties of religion and class, of politics and nation state. There are the binary oppositions of Left and Right, Need and Greed, Right and Wrong, the banners of difference which are used to justify imperial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Along the way we meet Emma Goldman, Trotsky and Shelley, and are shown glimpses of a distant worker s republic where Robert Owen cocktails are served on the beach every evening and parliamentary debates are conducted in verse.

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