My short reviews of four books by Joseph Kassabian, read in July 2022: the first three books of his military science fiction series and Hooligans of Kandahar, his hard-hitting account of the war in Afghanistan.
Joseph Kassabian: four reviews
Hate
Torchlight flickers over university grass, / Imposing bronzes hollow as their message, / Rewriting history in celebration of ignorance, / Demonising orange pickers while glorifying slavers. / Blood and soil chants, / Fake Fatherland heroes…
Mother Jones
She was 93 years old, / Grandmother of all agitators, / Immigrant teacher's words stirred men to action, / She wrote her story down, / Passing labour's flame from Pennsylvania, / From coal-mining heartlands built on the bones of union…
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