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opposing his government
Tokyo Nobody
Robert the Bruce
these urgent poems carry our collective grief for all that is lost-'there was no one to grieve / so I walked beside them
God Forbid They Hear Us Laughing: New and Selected Poems by Bobby Parker history opposing his governmentGod Forbid They Hear Us Laughing by Bobby Parker is a savage, tender selection that holds fatherhood and addiction, love and shame, sex and violence in the same shaking hands. These poems move through council estates, underpasses, chip shops, pubs, pharmacies, church tents and school corridors with a voice that is brazenly funny and abruptly devastating, switching from punchline to prayer in a breath. Parker's work is stocked with the lived textures
