If You Want Thunder Karen McNeil and portrait poems of greedy

and portrait poems of greedy politicians

‘As my father can no longer cross the bridge into my world

and encroached upon by violence

Millions of people have been fascinated by his novels

If You Want Thunder Karen McNeil and portrait poems of greedyRuth Valentine's tenth collection encompasses the tragedies of the public world civil wars in Syria and Sudan, knife crime in North London, the Iraq Iran war and our private griefs. At the heart of the book is an extraordinary alphabetical sequence about the Grenfell Tower dead and the society that allowed them to die. Its a book about the morality of politics and the mortality of us all, a study in remembrance and forgetting, about the indifferent