Mental Fight: An Anti-Spell for the 21st Century

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Following the theme of his extremely successful inaugural Scotsman lecture at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 1997, the first two sections of the poem appeared in The Times on 2 January 1999, described then as an ‘angry, hopeful, weary, wary, epic reveille to the human spirit.’ Strongly political, the complete poem touches on issues of racism, intolerance, environmental destruction : We praise our capacity for reason…

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