‘Briony Grist: Let’s be clear about the challenges we face with ermits.’

Richard Stillman is an English teacher in Winchester, and enjoys writing and reading poetry hugely. He has had some poems do well in local competitions such as the Winchester Writers’ Conference Poetry competition, and enjoys being part of the thriving local poetry scene in Winchester.

“This is a poem from Melissa-Lee’s Houghton’s course, Reinventing Dada: Anti-Poetry for the 21st Century. In this instance we used the discourse of a politician, in my case the loathsome Gove, and chopped it up with random words. The idea is to look at how the ‘post-truth’ discourse of our age is a most dangerous nonsense.”