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‘Brian Haw’ is a collection of poems that were not easy to produce. They came from the most painful, the most sorrowful, recesses of my being, which always feels mauled and wounded in this callous Britain not allowing the soul to function freely.Brian Haw was a sad defiant figure who, over a difficult decade, from 2001 to 2011, protested outside Parliament against vindictive British foreign policy, intent on bombing mud- hut villages in faraway nations. I sometimes joined him in his campaign, and his determination to speak on behalf of the poor across the planet seemed an inspiration. He existed at a very basic level in a tent, while Ministers and M.P.s would glide ostentatiously past in chauffeured limousines. Brian was real, while they were fake. He believed in true Christianity- on the side of the deprived and the powerless- in this hypocritical nation where the Established Church fawns before authority and money. Brian was anxious to be a mouthpiece for those who starve silently. He was an ignored, neglected prophet.‘In Memoriam’ is a perhaps overlong attempt at verse that deals with those ten turbulent and unhappy years- the savage start of the twenty first century- when Brian, camped on Parliament Green, condemned in vain the longing for war inherent in the corrupt British ‘elite’.Other shorter poems, with their inevitable metrical flaws, concern all the contradictions, indeed insanity, of the War On Terror- which is fundamentally a series of battles by the swaggering West against the helpless Third World.My inadequate words cannot properly define Brian Haw. He was the Spirit of God, a modern Elijah confronting our contemporary idols- cruise missiles, international oil companies, the White House, the Pentagon. To forget Brian Haw is to let something be diminished within our own conscience.