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Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey read from their latest collaboration - Poetry For The Many - a selection of poems that have shaped them over the years. With Karie Murphy. Live from Liverpool.
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About the book, Poetry For The Many:
Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal Britain, encapsulated in Labour’s election slogan “For the many, not the few.”
That slogan, inspired by Shelley’s famous poem The Masque of Anarchy, points to something else the two have in common: a lifelong enthusiasm for poetry. In this sparkling anthology they discuss the poems that have moved and enlightened them. Their choices travel over centuries and continents, with poets ranging from Shakespeare and Juana Inés de la Cruz, through William Blake and Emily Dickinson, to Bertolt Brecht, Stevie Smith and Linton Kwesi Johnson.
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Jeremy Corbyn is the Member of Parliament for Islington North and was Leader of the Labour Party between 2015 and 2020.
Len McCluskey was, until 2022, the General Secretary of Britain’s largest trade union, UNITE. He is the author of the recently published memoir Always Red.
Karie Murphy is a British trade unionist and Jeremy Corbyn's Chief of Staff from 2016 to 2020.
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OR Books Publishing Company (orbooks.com/)
orbooks.com/jeremy-corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey read from their latest collaboration - Poetry For The Many - a selection of poems that have shaped them over the years. With Karie Murphy. Live from Liverpool.
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About the book, Poetry For The Many:
Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey collaborated to help achieve the biggest electoral success for socialism in recent British history. The two men share a passionate belief in a fairer, more equal Britain, encapsulated in Labour’s election slogan “For the many, not the few.”
That slogan, inspired by Shelley’s famous poem The Masque of Anarchy, points to something else the two have in common: a lifelong enthusiasm for poetry. In this sparkling anthology they discuss the poems that have moved and enlightened them. Their choices travel over centuries and continents, with poets ranging from Shakespeare and Juana Inés de la Cruz, through William Blake and Emily Dickinson, to Bertolt Brecht, Stevie Smith and Linton Kwesi Johnson.
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Jeremy Corbyn is the Member of Parliament for Islington North and was Leader of the Labour Party between 2015 and 2020.
Len McCluskey was, until 2022, the General Secretary of Britain’s largest trade union, UNITE. He is the author of the recently published memoir Always Red.
Karie Murphy is a British trade unionist and Jeremy Corbyn's Chief of Staff from 2016 to 2020.
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OR Books Publishing Company (orbooks.com/)
orbooks.com/jeremy-corbyn
