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Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE: Sophie Herxheimer

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New Boots hosting Die DePfeffelschrift

In the period leading up to the appointment of a new leader of the Conservative Party and therefore Prime Minister, New Boots is inviting reflections on the current incumbent, Boris Johnson. Poems selected will appear as ever in the main space to the left, which is a statement open to metaphoric interpretation.

About Die DePfeffelschrift

Can you believe it’s been two long years since, exhausted by relentless bad news, we mothballed New Boots and Pantisocracies and took up fishing, never to catch anything but Covid from that day to this? We certainly can. Don’t get us started on January the 6th or Vlad the Invader…

However, short of a badly-organised coup (and we’re not putting that past him), it’s looking like the venal and labyrinthine political events of the last several months will lead to the passing of the premiership of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and his replacement by one of two partly successful necromantic resurrections of Thatcher in the form of Truss or Sunak.

We, waking from uneasy dreams here under the mountain at Schloss Neubootzenstein with Thomas the Rhymer and his crew of blockheads, feel that neither of these momentous occurrences should go unremarked upon by the literary community, whatever that is. We therefore invite your poetic responses for consideration by the editors to go into our DePfeffelschrift.

Please email your work to gudeandgodlie@gmail.com by 21st August at the latest and we’ll publish the best of what we receive in the leadup to the succession on September 5th. If that doesn’t work we’ll publish the worst. Remember the words of Harold Wilson – a week is a long time in politics, and a month is even shorter. So stop reading this and start writing!

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100 days – the Archive

De Pfeffelschrift – The Beginning of The End: Katy Evans-Bush
Postcards From Malthusia CLINICAL TRIAL #3: Emma Simon
Postcards From Malthusia CLINICAL TRIAL #2: Anne Symons
Postcards From Malthusia CLINICAL TRIAL #1: Kat Dixon
Postcards From Malthusia CLOSING CHORUS: Bill Herbert and Andy Jackson
Postcards From Malthusia DAY ONE HUNDRED – Stephanie Green
Postcards From Malthusia DAY NINETY-NINE – Tom Phillips
Postcards From Malthusia DAY NINETY-EIGHT: Jean Atkin
Postcards From Malthusia DAY NINETY-SEVEN – Niall McDevitt
Post-It Notes From Malthusia DAY NINETY-SIX – Day of the Squibs
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #17: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards From Malthusia DAY NINETY-FIVE: Kirsty A. Niven
Postcards From Malthusia DAY NINETY-FOUR: Mary Matusz
Postcards From Malthusia DAY NINETY-THREE: David Punter
Postcards From Malthusia DAY NINETY-TWO: Alison Grant
Postcards From Malthusia DAY NINETY-ONE: Bogusia Wardein
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #16: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards From Malthusia DAY NINETY: A C Clarke
Postcards From Malthusia DAY EIGHTY-NINE: David Callin
Postcards From Malthusia DAY EIGHTY-EIGHT: Cliff Yates
Postcards From Malthusia DAY EIGHTY-SEVEN: Gillian Mellor
Postcards From Malthusia DAY EIGHTY-SIX: Robert Sheppard
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #15: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards From Malthusia DAY EIGHTY-FIVE: Alex Josephy
Postcards From Malthusia DAY EIGHTY-FOUR: Charles Lauder Jr.
Postcards From Malthusia DAY EIGHTY-THREE: Fiona Larkin
Postcards From Malthusia DAY EIGHTY-TWO: Steve Perfect
Postcards From Malthusia DAY EIGHTY-ONE: Finola Scott
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #14: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards From Malthusia DAY EIGHTY: Harry Smart
Postcards From Malthusia DAY SEVENTY-NINE: Fiona Moore
Postcards From Malthusia DAY SEVENTY-EIGHT: Marcas Mac an Tuairneir
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SEVENTY-SEVEN: Amy B. Moreno
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SEVENTY-SIX: Steve Griffiths
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #13: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SEVENTY-FIVE: Jim Carruth
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SEVENTY-FOUR: Cath Campbell
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SEVENTY-THREE: David Linklater
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SEVENTY-TWO: Lynn Valentine
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SEVENTY-ONE: Knotbrook Taylor
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #12: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SEVENTY: Ian McDonough
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SIXTY-NINE: Jayne Stanton
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SIXTY-EIGHT: John Newson
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SIXTY-SEVEN: Sarah-Clare Conlon
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SIXTY-SIX: Brian Johnstone
Postcards from Malthusia VIDEO INTERLUDE #1: John White
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #11: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SIXTY-FIVE: Katy Evans-Bush
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SIXTY-FOUR: Jane Baston
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SIXTY-THREE: Jack Houston
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SIXTY-TWO: Bethan Manley
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SIXTY-ONE: Bob Beagrie
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #10: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards from Malthusia DAY SIXTY: Lydia Kennaway
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FIFTY-NINE: Jo Gilbert
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FIFTY-EIGHT: Amlanjyoti Goswami
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FIFTY-SEVEN: Magi Gibson
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FIFTY-SIX: David Briggs
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #9: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FIFTY-FIVE: Katharine Towers
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FIFTY-FOUR: Marion McCready
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FIFTY-THREE: Nicolas Spicer
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FIFTY-TWO: Madelaine Culver
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FIFTY-ONE: Simon Barraclough
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #8: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FIFTY: Peter McCarey
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FORTY-NINE: Cara L McKee
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FORTY-EIGHT: John Quinn
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FORTY-SEVEN: Bernadette McAloon
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FORTY-SIX: John Challis
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #7: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FORTY-FIVE: Seth Crook
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FORTY-FOUR: Ruth Aylett
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FORTY-THREE: Matt Quinn
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FORTY-TWO: Mandy Macdonald
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FORTY-ONE: Tim Turnbull
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #6: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards from Malthusia DAY FORTY: Alison Brackenbury
Postcards from Malthusia DAY THIRTY-NINE: Paul Stephenson
Postcards from Malthusia DAY THIRTY-EIGHT: Zoe Karathanasi
Postcards from Malthusia DAY THIRTY-SEVEN: Neil Fulwood
Postcards from Malthusia DAY THIRTY-SIX: Morag Anderson
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #5: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards from Malthusia DAY THIRTY-FIVE: Adam Horovitz
Postcards from Malthusia DAY THIRTY-FOUR: Mark Robinson
Postcards from Malthusia DAY THIRTY-THREE: Sue Burge
Postcards from Malthusia DAY THIRTY-TWO: Stephen Keeler
Postcards from Malthusia DAY THIRTY-ONE: Jacqueline Saphra
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #4: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards from Malthusia DAY THIRTY: Pippa Little
Postcards from Malthusia DAY TWENTY-NINE: Andrew J. Wilson
Postcards from Malthusia DAY TWENTY-EIGHT: Claudia Daventry
Postcards from Malthusia DAY TWENTY SEVEN: Paul Colinet (tr. James Knight)
Postcards from Malthusia DAY TWENTY-SIX: Linda France
Postcards from Malthusia INTERLUDE #3: Sophie Herxheimer
Postcards from Malthusia DAY TWENTY-FIVE: Hugh McMillan
Postcards from Malthusia DAY TWENTY-FOUR: Jane Burn
Postcards from Malthusia DAY TWENTY-THREE: George T Watt
Postcards from Malthusia DAY TWENTY-TWO: Chandramohan S

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