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This is a poetry anthology produced from a creative writing project that involved professional writers and performers with one hundred individuals from six to seventy-five years old, who are experiencing poverty in Great Britain .
This anthology is the result of a year-long creative writing project run by ATD Fourth World, an international human rights organization that works with people living in poverty, supporting their efforts to overcome social exclusion and to take an active role in society.
The creative writing project involved bringing professional writers and one hundred individuals from six to seventy-five years old, in a series of workshops and visits to poetry events across London.
This selection draws on both the writing produced through those workshops – produced against many odds, such as the demands made by professionals, the stresses of daily life on the line, and a lack of (or complete absence of) formal education. It also draws on the ATD archive of writing, an archive going back over thirty years.
Many of the poets’ concerns are universal. But more than this: each poet has particular knowledge and experience of poverty in the UK, and many have chosen to write from this experience.
In
these poems, many of them powerful and eloquent, courage is a quality
that shines through again and again – the sheer determination to keep
on keeping on, to salvage something hopeful from catastrophe…
Carole Satyamurti.
PeOpLe iN PoVeRtY
“Pick yourselves up from the dirt and know your worth
For the meek and humble shall inherit the Earth
The web of revolution has already been spun
Welcome to the war against wickedness
Where the Fourth World Won!”
Peace, Love and Harmony
each & every1
in da Y2K+
-Skorpio the Nemesis