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Posted on July 3, 2025

Never Again – An Open Letter To Labour

Under the leadership of Kier Starmer, the Labour Party has been and still is an active participant in and ardent defender of the genocide of the Palestinian people.

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Posted on May 11, 2025August 14, 2025

Maryam – Daughter Of Magdala

She walks on water’s shores.

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Posted on February 1, 2025

From Here To When?

Where to from here?

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Posted on August 22, 2024August 22, 2024

Seven Years Of Poetry

From February of 2016 to the end of 2023.

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Posted on August 8, 2024

I Dreamed I Saw The QueenKing’s Face In Person, There Before Me

A form adorned in beauty.

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Posted on July 17, 2024

Not. Lost.

Perhaps.

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Posted on May 22, 2024

Posterity

Did I?

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Posted on December 8, 2023

Song Of Palestine – All Violence ‘Pon The Western Bank

A farce of a pause in Gaza.

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Posted on September 19, 2023

A Trailer For A Mythic Tale

A tale of Isis, Su-Tekh, & The Falcon-Child…

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Posted on September 3, 2023

A Cottage Courtyard In The Peak District

The peaks of the cottage-layers roof about in slopes of slatetile smooth.

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Posted on June 4, 2023

A Poetry Shop!

Ink-Blue Thoughts – A Shop Of Poetry!

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Posted on May 8, 2023

Do Not Be Indifferent

Monarchism is self-evidently wrong.

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Posted on April 16, 2023

Written Somewhere Sunny In The North-East

A melody by the a-peeling bells.

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Posted on April 10, 2023

Hello Harbour, My Old Muse

Th’wind o’er th’water.

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Posted on March 17, 2023

Poetry Collection: Fleeting Songs, Eternal

My journey along the winding, wistful, wond’rous way that is Japanese poetry.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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