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In this section Nettles by Vernon Scannell I Believe Nothing ... by Kathleen Raine When Hemingway turned his hand to verse The Saturday poem: A London Symphony by Jo Shapcott Dismantling the Library by Stephen Romer Carol Ann Duffy likely to be first woman to follow Tennyson and Betjeman as laureate In the Dark Room by Salman Masalha, translated by Vivian Eden
| What's Black and White and Red all Over? by Patience AgbabiSaturday April 12, 2008 The Guardian A newspaper delivered to a hotel room on a silver tray in a hotel where the head chef's a tall black man with a bold face, wearing a toque blanche, stir-frying strips of marinated zebra in a king-size wok, the prices on the menu inflating like the number of columns in the national newspaper where the news is divided into plots but there's not enough land to bury the dead from AIDS - a white man's disease the public are told; or women writing a monthly column in their own blood because newspaper is ten times cheaper than tampons; or literacy withering on a makeshift bed, too ill to attend a school that has no teachers, so fewer can read but everyone gets the message. · From Bloodshot Monochrome by Patience Agbabi, published by Canongate. To order a copy for £8.99 call Guardian book service on 0870 836 0875  | |||||||||||||||||||||
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