Hugo Dewar (socialist poet)

[Kate Sharpley]

...was the author of Barcelona 1936
Apparently it appeared in Socialist Worker (23 August 1975). Anyone have a copy of that issue?
(For the record, His non-poetic writings can be found at the Marxists Internet Archive https://www.marxists.org/archive/dewar/index.htm)
Part of the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On Line

 

[imposs1904]

If anyone has a copy of that issue of Socialist Worker, it will be this bloke.

 

[charlie mowbray]

The old anarchist Charlie Lahr published a collection of Dewar's poems in 1947, Tea Leaves, Dust and Ashes. The SWP published another collection with their Bookmarks imprint in 1981, Arsy-Versy World.
Here's Arsy-Versy:
‘There’s a world called Arsy Versy, whose ways are very queer,
And the things that happen in that world could never happen here,
They plant a lot of apple trees and from the laden boughs
They pluck the bounteous harvest and feed it to the cows.
And then they take the milk the patient cows deliver
And give it to disposal firms to pour into the river.
At times they churn the cream, and when the work is done
They build a butter mountain to shade them from the sun.
They also press out tons of grapes and from the wine they make,
For boating and for swimming, an artificial lake;
And spuds and fruit and vegetables upon the roads they spread
And mash them very thoroughly beneath a tractor’s tread.
In Arsy-Versy world, all sorts of experts by the score
Plead with those producing goods to turn out more and more.
And the way the turn-out turns out is somehow always such
That though there never is enough, there’s always far too much.’

 

[imposs1904]

Tea-leaves, Dust & Ashes

 

[Kate Sharpley]

Imposs I want to say thank you but am disturbed by the number of little faces I have to choose from.