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Alistair Findlay

The day he died


he was not working for an international corporation

or holding a placard up or  wondering where

his next meal was coming from

  

he did not meet his death in the arms 

of an illegal immigrant

or marching through the streets juggling

 

his death had nothing to do with

the National Health Service

or the fight against austerity

 

he died

no kind of subversive

not raging, blowing on a whistle

Alistair Findlay is a Scots poet and editor, written four collections, Sex, Death and Football (2003), The Love Songs of John Knox (2006), Dancing Big Eunice (2010), Never Mind the Captions (2011); edited 100 Favourite Football Poems (2007) and co-edited, with Tessa Ransford, Scotia Nova: poems for the early days of a better nation (2015), all for Luath Press, Edinburgh; a cultural history/creative memoir, Shale Voices (1999,2010); contributed to The Robin Hood Book: Verse Versus Austerity (2012) and A Rose Loupt Oot: Poetry & Song Celebrating the UCS Work-In (2011), ed David Betteridge, Smokestack Books.

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