Snollygosters: Political Poems 2024-2026

‘Snollygosters’ – shrewd, unprincipled persons like Trump, Starmer and Netanyahu – have dragged politics into the mire of illegal wars and genocide. Norris deploys scatological imagery and technical brilliance in metre and rhyme, illustrated by Martin Gollan’s satirical cartoons. They forcefully make the point that the Labour Party is at the point of extinction without a radical return to socialism.