Further to my recent post on having two poems published in the anti-Trump What Rough Beast anthology, I am pleased to write that one of these poems, “Where Donald J. Trump has been Jumping the Shark” (about the January 6 Capitol attack), has been selected by the publisher, Culture Matters (UK), as one of their four ‘sample’ poems from the anthology that they will use in their ongoing marketing of the volume.

This is a bit of a coup – if you will excuse the pun – and an international boost for my work, so I’m appropriately humbled.

“Where Donald J. Trump has been Jumping the Shark” was first published on January 6, 2023 at The Five-Two (with thanks to editor @sogerald ). The poem also appears in my recently published collection After Spruce.

With thanks to Culture Matters editors Merryn, Mike and especially Rip, you can read the poem and three other poems from What Rough Beast here:

https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/poetry/item/4705-three-poems-from-what-rough-beast

(photograph: AFP: Win McNamee)

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Kamala Harris is a-*maz*-ing!!!

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With thanks to the indefatigable editor, Rip Bulkeley, I am honoured to have two poems (one from my just published After Spruce, another from my just completed ‘American Geegaws’) in this anthology of anti-Trump poetry. Published by Culture Matters in the UK, This Rough Beast is a searing indictment of Trump and Trumpism and is currently available for a limited time as a free ebook (click on the link):

https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts/poetry/item/4702-what-rough-beast

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Former #POTUS #DonaldJTrump frequently speaks about #InsaneAsylums and #MentalInstitutions. I can see why they’re on his “mind”: he’s headed for one.

It’s just over two weeks to #Nov5 and instead of prosecuting a case, the #Republican #presidential #candidate is talking about:

#cows ( #FoxAndFriends ) (1)

and the #genitalia of the late #golfer #ArnoldPalmer ( #Latrobe #Pennsylvania ) (2)

Every time he calls #KamalaHarris a #lunatic he’s actually describing himself. It’s called #projection

Anyone who watches these videos would acknowledge that - at this critical point in the #campaign - what Trump is saying is #JustPlainNuts

(1) https://www.instagram.com/foxandfriends/reel/DBRUVnfRmCu/
(2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diw3aKjDJKg

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The former #POTUS #DonaldJTrump has made an outrageous claim that the #Democrat #Governor of #NorthCarolina, #RoyCooper, and the #Federal #Government, are “going out of their way to not help people in #Republican areas” following #HurricaneHelene (1).

Remember that every accusation is a confession. During the early period of #COVID the Republican #Trump #Administration reportedly baulked at a large-scale national plan in response to the #pandemic because the #virus seemed to initially favour #Democratic #states and was not (then) affecting Republican states (2, see also image).

Here in #Australia, we had a #conservative prime minister that in 2022 was faced with massive #floods and politicised the response to them: funding his party’s seats and states but not the other party’s seats and states (3). What happened to that prime minister is instructive: he led his party to the next #election and was soundly defeated: recording the worst result for Australia’s centre-right governing parties in seventy years.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw7H6BLmtHg
(2) https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/did-trump-kushner-ignore-blue-state-covid-19-testing-deaths-ncna1235707
(3) https://www.sstuwa.org.au/WesternTeacher/20/volume-513-april-2022/man-who-should-not-be-pm

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The eloquent Dr #MaryTrump writes of her uncle, former #POTUS #DonaldJTrump, and his recent proposed “one real rough nasty day” to let police do whatever they want to alleged perpetrators, warning that under a second #Trump administration, violence would become normalised: just like it was on #January6

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https://open.substack.com/pub/marytrump/p/weve-been-here-before?r=11vsk5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

In this disgraceful press conference former #POTUS #Trump repeatedly calls President #Zelensky a “piece of steel”. Utterly obsessed with his own #victory in November and not even mentioning the suffering of the people of #Ukraine, the twice #impeached, four times #indicted, #convicted #felon instead shows the world what a piece of sh - - Trump truly is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwwKlcy2w6g

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"Now she wants to do transgender operations on illegal aliens that are in prison." – former #POTUS #DonaldJTrump at #Debate2024 in #Philadelphia September 10, 2024.

I guess these are the individuals that Mr #Trump is thinking about?

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#ManyPeopleAreSaying that the former #POTUS has released his own list of #policy ideas prior to the #Presidential #Debate to be held in #Philadelphia on September 10th

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