Giles Watson's poetry and prose
Lockheed Martin: Get Your Bloody Hands off our Census 10 & 11
By this stage, those Lockheed Martin murdering lackeys might be getting sick of all that stuff about what their bombs and guns and planes are actually doing to human flesh - so it is time for a lesson in botany. Here, we have nice pictures of spring gentians, white campions, Lady's smocks (cuckoos), cornflowers... and that obligatory poppy - the opiate so often used to numb people's emotions whenever it comes to considering the actual work of weapons.
These pages were inspired by my copy of John Lindley's marvellous The Vegetable Kingdom: the Structure, Classification and Uses of Plants (1853), which has a gorgeous copperplate inscription on the flyleaf. It reads:
"Botany is a science that gives life to the loveliest of earth's offerings... War is the furnace (fiery) into which are flung the savings of generations, the humble joys of happy homes, & the quiet hopes of millions of human hearts."
This inscription was written in 1889. Have we learnt anything since then, or not?
The words on the post-it notes are the last two verses of my song lyric, 'Union Jack'.
Lockheed Martin: Get Your Bloody Hands off our Census 10 & 11
By this stage, those Lockheed Martin murdering lackeys might be getting sick of all that stuff about what their bombs and guns and planes are actually doing to human flesh - so it is time for a lesson in botany. Here, we have nice pictures of spring gentians, white campions, Lady's smocks (cuckoos), cornflowers... and that obligatory poppy - the opiate so often used to numb people's emotions whenever it comes to considering the actual work of weapons.
These pages were inspired by my copy of John Lindley's marvellous The Vegetable Kingdom: the Structure, Classification and Uses of Plants (1853), which has a gorgeous copperplate inscription on the flyleaf. It reads:
"Botany is a science that gives life to the loveliest of earth's offerings... War is the furnace (fiery) into which are flung the savings of generations, the humble joys of happy homes, & the quiet hopes of millions of human hearts."
This inscription was written in 1889. Have we learnt anything since then, or not?
The words on the post-it notes are the last two verses of my song lyric, 'Union Jack'.