Poem of the Week: Katrina Naomi

Each week in March we are featuring a poem from one of the new Rack pamphlets published in 2015 and this week the chosen poem is from Katrina Naomi's collection Hooligans. You can order it now from this site using the Paypal button (£5).  "Hooligans" was a term used against the suffragettes by their opponents.

Katrina Naomi (centre) with friends at the launch
last month in London of Hooligans

Special Delivery

23 February 1909 from West Strand Post Office to 10 Downing St, SW

What a shock for the postie,

one woman, then two

human letters – 

Elspeth McClelland and Daisy Soloman –

addressed to Mr Asquith,

a threepenny stamp like a small tattoo

on each hand, as they walked,

too large to be perched

on the delivery boy’s basket;

words indelibly printed in their mouths,

which just needed to be opened,

their contents clear 

from both women’s signatures –

the way each spoke when angry.