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Things that need to be said: Uncompromising poems on the great misdeeds of the 21st century: politicians who cause death and misery whilst selling themselves to a gullible public as peace lovers; their supporters in the media who guide public opinion; the persecution of the Palestinians, the lies that were told to try to justify the criminal attack on Iraq, hidebound attitudes that lead to internecine violence, and the many lame excuses for wars. The 2008 economic crash also features as the Queen tries to understand it!
On a personal level there are poems of peace, pleasure, leisure and humour, but also a quiet fascination with the process of ageing, personal decline and death.
David Roberts published a collection of his poems about the Kosovo War in 2000 and a collection of his poems, Poems About Love, (available from Amazon) in 2023. He is the editor of four war poetry anthologies, and ran the publishing company Saxon Books for thirty years. He has long been interested in international relations and was on the executive committee of Action for UN Renewal for many years.
He is a music promoter.
He has a war poetry website, started in 1999, www.warpoetry.co.uk and he has a blog, www.davidrobertsblog.com
David Roberts
David Roberts is a hugely talented and versatile artist and author. David began his career in fashion illustration, and his sharp eye for form and composition is showcased beautifully in his books with Andrea Beaty, which include Ada Twist, Scientist and Iggy Peck, Architect. His work ranges from feisty retellings of fairy tales created in collaboration with his sister, Lyn (Little Red, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel), to his brilliantly funny books with Julia Donaldson such as Tyrannosaurus Drip, The Troll and The Cook and the King. In 2006 he won the Nestlé Children’s Book Prize Gold Award for his line drawings in Mouse Noses On Toast, and Little Red was shortlisted for the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. David’s sense of humour shines through in all his work, but especially his illustrations for The Bolds series by Julian Clary and the madcap Dirty Bertie books. Suffragette: The Battle for Equality was David’s first self-authored book and is an exquisitely illustrated history of the women’s suffrage movement, which has been a passion of David’s since his school days.
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