The Acts of Oblivion by Paul Batchelor #lintonkwesijohnson remote and for so long

remote and for so long an outcast in Europe

and perhaps a little bruised

” But words that ‘smart’ may well be the very ones we most need to heal our wounds

whilst a mother and daughter share 'a Eucharist of grain and fruit'

Philip Gross

The Acts of Oblivion by Paul Batchelor #lintonkwesijohnson remote and for so longPublished December 2021. The Acts of Oblivion were a series of seventeenth century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary speech from the record they forced the people to forget. Against such injunctions, Paul Batchelors poems rebel. This long awaited second collection, The Acts of Oblivion, listens in on some of Englands lost futures, such as those