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'Sometimes the world goes feral' – 11 odes to Europe

Illustration; ramblers scale a ‘passport’ mountain

Referendum by Hugh Dunkerley

From the collection Kin, Cinnamon Press, 2018

Two cabbage pickers

A Poem for Your Immigrants
by Sea Sharp

From Black Cotton, published in Sussex by Waterloo Press, 2019 (seathepoet.com)

View from below of corporate jet flying in blue sky.

The Ex-Ministers by Carol Ann Duffy

From Carol Ann Duffy’s most recent collection Sincerity, Picador Poetry, 2018

Hospital emergency staff pushing patient on gurney.

£350 million a week
by Andrew McMillan

Both the following Andrew McMillan poems were written for the Guardian

open the gates by Andrew McMillan

Commuters at a station.

Brexit by Vidyan Ravinthiran

Both poems from Vidyan Ravinthiran’s The Million-petalled Flower of Being Here, Bloodaxe Books, 2019

Faraj by Vidyan Ravinthiran

A Thello train, which travels between France and Italy

The Frontier by John Hewitt

Both poems from John Hewitt: Selected Poems (eds Michael Longley and Frank Ormsby), Blackstaff Press, 2007

To the People of Dresden
by John Hewitt

Homecoming by Elaine Feinstein

From Elaine Feinstein’s collection The Clinic, Memory, Carcanet Press, 2017

UK Border Agency staff at the ferry port in Calais, France.

Psalm by Wisława Szymborska

From View With a Grain of Sand, Selected Poems, Faber, 1996, translated by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh

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