The Coup Clock Ticks by Brian Meeks Hera Lindsay Bird childish behaviours

childish behaviours

and the lines are in constant motion: approaching

Every image is a surprise

strange communiqués remain unclear

a large number of people living in our towns and cities – the homeless

The Coup Clock Ticks by Brian Meeks Hera Lindsay Bird childish behavioursThe poems in The Coup Clock Clicks were written between 1971 and 1988, reflecting the work of the then young political activist, poems challenging indifference, and mainly concerned to understand and, if possible, ameliorate the situation of others. It is also a personal memoir, shaped as autobiography. In reggae conscious free verse in Jamaican patwa, these poems are fierce, sometimes witty jeremiads against economic and socio cultural division,