Category: kevin higgins

• November 10, 2021

  Today Kevin Higgins received letter from UKLabour informing him that he’s facing likely expulsion from the party (of which he’s an overseas member) for publishing this poem in Socialist Appeal magazine.

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• September 27, 2021

  Optimism of the Pessimists! Dave Lordan

  Optimism of the Pessimists!   ‘What kind of monster is she who has eyes to see & ears to hear, and yet walks straight and does not despair?’ Killian Turner, Berlin Notebooks (1982) ****** As a thought experiment, imagine yourself in a mass of lemmings headed for the Cliffs of Moher. If it helps, imagine the…
• September 19, 2021

  Laureate Poem for The Empire by Kevin Higgins 

  An installment by Beir Bua Journal Contributing Editor, Kevin Higgins. In his book Revolution Betrayed (1937) Trotsky predicted that the Stalinist era “will, in spite of individual exceptions, go into the history of artistic creation as a time of mediocrities, laureates, and toadies.” He was, by and large, correct. A cursory glance at a poem…