BETWEEN BUSH AND BLAIR A POST-WAR SEWER OF ENGLISH VERSE


Verses ‘by’ classic
POETS DISPLEASED
by the Iraq War, by Bush, by Blair and by the Iraq inquiries
plus
“Done in the Bush” and “The Blair Affair”
by
Nigel Stuart

Soldiers in the Iraq War
Prologue

Done in the Bush
WILLIAM COLLINGBOURNE    (? - 1484)
Blairie Britain
SIR THOMAS WYATT    (1503 - 1542)
Dreamland
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    (1564 - 1616)
18th March, 2003
Power Hereafter
Mirror Image
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE    (1564 - 1593)
The Bargain
ORLANDO GIBBONS    (1583 - 1625)
The Secret Source
FRANCIS BEAUMONT    (1584 - 1616)
On the Sh.. Beneath our Shoes
SIR JOHN SUCKLING    (1609 - 1642)
Striking Colours
ROBERT HERRICK    (1591 - 1674)
Counsel of Whores
RICHARD LOVELACE    (1618 - 1658)
To Voters, on Going to the War
JOHN MILTON    (1608 - 1674)
Wolf Watch
The Wailers of Babylon
''On His Blindness''
ANDREW MARVELL    (1621 - 1678)
To His Coy Masters
CHARLES SACKVILLE, EARL OF DORSET    (1643 - 1706)
The Middle Ground
WILLIAM COLLINS    (1721 - 1759)
Ode Written in 2003
ROBERT BURNS    (1759 - 1796)
And Now All This
Bundles for Britain
WILLIAM BLAKE    (1757 - 1827)
A River of Fire
Strange Fruit
SIR WALTER SCOTT    (1771 - 1832)
Desert Rose
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    (1770 - 1850)
Fatherhood
Blair's Britain, 2003
On the Extinction of American Liberty
Thanks a Bunch
SIR WALTER SCOTT    (1771 - 1832)
Blood Calls
JOHN KEATS    (1795 - 1821)
Broad Thoughts from at Home
'Futurous Prospectives'
''Irresponsible'' - an Ode
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    (1792 - 1822)
Sound Scents
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON    (1788 - 1824)
As Directed
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON     (1809 - 1892)
What's a Heaven For?
ROBERT BROWNING     (1812 - 1889)
The False Leader
How They Brought the Bad News from Baghdad to Us
Patriot Facts
Hard Choices
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING     (1806 - 1861)
For Tony
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH     (1819 - 1861)
Reflections
A. W. E. O'SHAUGHNESSY     (1844 - 1881)
Country Music
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON     (1809 - 1892)
The New Revenge
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI     (1830 - 1894)
Downhill
WALT WHITMAN     (1819 - 1892)
Respond and Survive - or Duck and Cover
ANONYMOUS - INDIA in the 1870s   
Taken In
Beneath Notice
LEWIS CARROLL     (1832 - 1898)
The Green and Gold
The Hunting of the Blush-Bair - or The Jury's Bad Dream
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON     (1850 - 1894)
Tomorrow the World
Paydirt
Improvements
''Looking Forward''
Payment Deferred
Shadow Man
War and Remembrance
Freedom's Sun
Silenced Witness
Mellow Frightfulness
Grave Lines
W. E. HENLEY     (1849 - 1903)
In Confidence
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON     (1809 - 1892)
Unwanted
W. S. GILBERT    (1836 - 1911)
An Odious Little Man
'Z'
A. E. HOUSMAN     (1859 - 1936)
Fifty Years On
Air Bourne
Good Looking
MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE     (1861 - 1907)
''Unwelcome''
SIR HENRY NEWBOLT     (1862 - 1938)
Sharers of the Flame
RUDYARD KIPLING     (1865 - 1936)
A Liberator's Lullaby - or Night Song of Fairford Woman
The Deeds of Rumsfeld
Years Zero
HUGHES MEARNS     (1875 - 1965)
Progress
RUPERT BROOKE     (1887 - 1915)
The Politician
SIEGFRIED SASSOON     (1886 - 1967)
Bombed Out
Commercial Rites
RUDYARD KIPLING     (1865 - 1936)
Out of Sight
'Reliable Sources'
HILAIRE BELLOC     (1870 - 1953)
S for C - or The Scarlett Letter
T. S. ELIOT     (1888 - 1965)
Hippo-Brit
A. A. MILNE     (1882 - 1956)
Getting Respect
HILAIRE BELLOC     (1870 - 1953)
The Obit. Of Dicta
COLE PORTER    (1891 - 1964)
''Anything Goes''
DYLAN THOMAS     (1914 - 1953)
Eye Blight
W. H. AUDEN     (1907 - 1973)
Life-Like
Strange Island
JOHN BETJEMAN     (1906 - 1984)
Collateral Damage - or The Death of Dr. David Kelly
Falluja
W. H. AUDEN     (1907 - 1973)
T.B. - an Epitaph
Parent Class
The Lesson
WILLIAM SOUTAR     (1898 - 1943)
Going for a Song
HUGH MACDIARMID     (1892 - 1978)
A Vacant Lot
DOROTHY PARKER     (1893 - 1967)
Experience
The Vote Bearers
A Reckoning
Two Roses
ABEL MEEROPOL   
The Medlar
JOHN BETJEMAN    (1906 - 1984)
Arlington Orisons
W. H. AUDEN     (1907 - 1973)
11th September, 2001
CECIL DAY LEWIS     (1904 - 1972)
No More War Poets
JOHN PUDNEY     (1909 - 1977)
For Ali?
JOHN BETJEMAN     (1906 - 1984)
Lonely of Langley
PHILIP LARKIN     (1922 - 1985)
Futures
DYLAN THOMAS     (1914 - 1953)
Night Vision
PHILIP LARKIN     (1922 - 1985)
Past to Present - Future Tense
TERRY GILKYSON, RICHARD DEHR, FRANK MILLER   
New Graves for Old
FRAN LANDESMAN   
Rule Changes
ROALD DAHL     (1916 - 1990)
Emotionally Marred
LIZ LOCHEAD   
Not Given
CAROL ANN DUFFY   
The Score
   
Epilogue

The Blair Affair