Definitely not taking part - I remember crouching behind a wall by the
Rialto club with a huge and also crouching Rastafari guy for company as the
police charged the crowd on the Soho Rd.
(and I mean huge: I'm 6ft 2in and I was looking up to this guy like a child.
Later. When we stood.)
2009/10/23 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> Typical poet in the sidelines with his pen to hand -not talking part
> exactly
> cheersP
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of David Bircumshaw
> Sent: 23 October 2009 14:38
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> Subject: Re: Request for information
>
> I vaguely heard about something happening in Market Harborough. I most
> definitely know about Birmingham in 1981, I was living in Handsworth at the
> time and got caught in a street riot: it was a very hot summer and both
> rioters and police were drinking a lot (pubs sent out beer by the gallon to
> the coaches carrying the police - I write as an eye-witness). For at least
> one weekend it was close to a breakdown of authority - I recall seeing
> police cars being attacked at traffic lights and driving off for safety.
> Steel Pulse did an album about it (!)
>
>
>
> 2009/10/23 Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > Anyone on this list know anything about the civil disturbances in
> > Cirencester, Market Harborough (!) and other British towns in 1981,
> around
> > the same time as the Brixton riots? They seem to have slipped from our
> > collective memory, more or less...
> >
> > Dominic
> >
>
>
>
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> David Bircumshaw
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> You say are poems" - DMeltzer
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David Bircumshaw
"A window./Big enough to hold screams/
You say are poems" - DMeltzer
Website and A Chide's Alphabet
http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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