Poems, Pleas and Protests

Alison Lesley writes: I have always struggled with witnessing the cruelty, inequality and injustice in the world and find some relief in putting thoughts and feelings into simple poems. I have campaigned on many issues over the years, primarily Free Palestine, and earlier this year I had the questionable honour, while sitting quietly in Trafalgar Square, of being arrested and charged with Terrorism! Hence the poem Under the gaze of Nelson. Other poems were written in sorrow or anger or both.

All proceeds from the sale of this book go to Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and We Are The Tree (a refugee self-support group)

The poems include:

All Lives Matter
Patriotism or Racism
Don't!
With a nod to Louis Armstrong and his Wonderful World
Under the gaze of Nelson
At What Stage Do You Look in the Mirror?
Silence is not always Golden
Refugees Welcome
Dead in the Water
Why am I Here?
Hiroshima
Tick Tick Tick
Just Go!
Dear Donald
International Women's Day
Grief

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