{"id":29894,"date":"2015-07-28T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T07:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=29894"},"modified":"2015-07-28T08:32:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T07:32:02","slug":"book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/28\/book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: More Bees Bigger Bonnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I reckon everyone has heroes.\u00a0One of mine is a man I have not met. His name is <a href=\"http:\/\/stevepottinger.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pottinger<\/a>. He's a poet. On occasion he can be an angry poet.\u00a0He brought you this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"No-one likes an angry poet.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U_KG6BqiyPs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">And now he has a new book out, which includes that poem and a fair selection of others that, if you like and read poetry (and both apply to me) or want to find a voice that expresses things that matter to you in unexpected ways might be worth your time reading. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">The book is called <a href=\"http:\/\/ignitebooks.co.uk\/products-page\/steve-pottinger-books\/\" target=\"_blank\">More Bees, Bigger Bonnets<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stevepottinger.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/bees-front-cover_bees-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Why does it work for me? Three reasons. Because I think poets change the world, and Steve is trying to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>Second, this is contemporary, performance related poetry in the tradition of the jester, deliberately seeking with humour and insight to challenge the powers that be.<\/p>\n<p>Third, because when my 14 year old son said he hated poetry I introduced him to Steve's work and then he wasn't so sure. In other words, his world view changed. If that's what poetry should achieve then Steve does it.<\/p>\n<p>And at modest cost this is a volume to enjoy, to leave in the loo so that others do too, and to help the voices of change. <a href=\"http:\/\/ignitebooks.co.uk\/products-page\/steve-pottinger-books\/\" target=\"_blank\">You can buy it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reckon everyone has heroes.\u00a0One of mine is a man I have not met. His name is Steve Pottinger. He&#8217;s a poet. On occasion he<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/28\/book-review\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}