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After Lord Byron
James Sutherland-Smith
Gentle foreign visitor you may wonder,
"Surely this place honours one of no mean stature.
Tell me whose memorial is this?"
But you'll have made an outrageous blunder.
It is the museum of Margaret Thatcher.
So unzip your lower garments and piss.
James Sutherland-Smith was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1948 and is a lecturer in British Cultural Studies in the Institute of English and American Studies at Prešov University. He has lived in Prešov since 1989, but from 2002 to 2009 he ran Peacekeeping English Projects in Serbia and Montenegro. He has published six full collections of his poetry, the last being his poem cycle, Mouth, published by Shearsman Books this year. He reviews and writes articles on poetry, especially for PN Review and the Bow-Wow Shop. He has translated a number of Slovak poets into English for which work he received the Hviezdoslav Prize in 2003. A selected poems of Miodrag Pavlovi? has just been published by Salt.
On Viscount Castlereagh
Lord Byron
Posterity will ne'er survey,
A nobler grave than this:
Here lie the bones of Castlereagh:
Stop, traveller, and piss.
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