Poetry

Question 1

Remains

Answer 1

‘On another occasion, we sent out/to tackle looters raiding a bank’

Question 2

Remains

Answer 2

‘probably armed, possibly not’

Question 3

Remains

Answer 3

‘I see every round as it rips through his life-‘

Question 4

Remains

Answer 4

‘tosses his guts back into his body.’

Question 5

Remains

Answer 5

‘’Blood shadow…his bloody life in my bloody hands’

Question 6

Poppies

Answer 6

‘Spasms of paper red,disrupting a blockade/of yellow bias binding’

Question 7

Poppies

Answer 7

‘Sellotape bandaged around my hand’

Question 8

Poppies

Answer 8

‘All my world/flattened, rolled, turned into felt’

Question 9

Poppies

Answer 9

‘Released a song bird from its cage/later a single dove flew from the pear tree’

Question 10

Poppies

Answer 10

‘Your playground voice catching on the wind’

Question 11

War Photographer

Answer 11

‘spools of suffering set out in ordered rows’

Question 12

War Photographer

Answer 12

‘Belfast, Beirut, Phnom Penh. All flesh is grass’

Question 13

War Photographer

Answer 13

‘fields which don’t explode beneath the feet of running children in a nightmare heat’

Question 14

War Photographer

Answer 14

‘A hundred agonies in black and white’

Question 15

War Photographer

Answer 15

‘The readers eyeballs / with tears between the bath and pre lunch beers’

Question 16

Checking Out Me History

Answer 16

‘Dem tell me/ what dem want to tell me,

Question 17

Checking Out Me History

Answer 17

‘Bandage up me eye…Blind me to me own identity’

Question 18

Checking Out Me History

Answer 18

‘Dem tell me about Columbus and 1942/ But what happen to the de Caribs and de Arawaks too’

Question 19

Checking Out Me History

Answer 19

‘But now I checking out me own history’

Question 20

Checking Out Me History

Answer 20

‘I carving out me identity’