Animals, nature and the environment

Cheese Plant

I go mental for lentils
and crazy for maize
I’m in an eternal
pine kernel phase

Haiku: Savings Bank

To save the rivers To pay for their survival We must burst the banks

River Reverie, Lewes Railway Lands

Janine will be contributing poems about rivers at this poetic and musical experience, as the evening event of the River Festival. Venue: The Linklater Pavilion Railway Lane Lewes BN72FG

Companies have suspended polluting the air Governments have suspended cutting our care Energy firms have suspended price rises Landlords have suspended nasty surprises Employers have suspended exploiting our labours Lobbyists have suspended cashing in favours Bosses have suspended giving the … Read more

Poeting at Laughton Greenwood

After a day of free activities in our beautiful local woods, Janine will perform at 4pm, followed by Geoff Robb playing his album ‘The Music of the Trees’. FIND US: Park Lane, Laughton, BN8 Please car-share EMAIL: [email protected] FACEBOOK: Laughton … Read more

For Fox Sake, Stop Hunting! (from the archives)

A recently-unearthed article by eighteen-year-old Janine, from Jamming! issue 26 (February 1985), back in the days when fox hunting was still legal. *** Fox-hunting is part of a die-hard British tradition. As the art of sabotage becomes more cunning, the … Read more

Effluenza

Our public sewage industry was sold to private bidders Who don’t dispose of putrid waste but dump it in the rivers They take responsibility and flush it down the loo For building up the affluent builds effluence up too The … Read more

Video: Empower the Unions

Janine speaks on why and how we should fight anti-strike and anti-union laws, as part of the launch week for Empower the Unions, a new initiative from Earth Strike UK, a group of anti-capitalist activists in the climate movement. The … Read more

Triolet: Just a Dusting

Just a dusting’s not enough There’s barely ample white to fight It’s floating free like frozen fluff Just a dusting’s not enough No handful for a snowball – tough! This winter’s snowfall’s far too light Just a dusting not enough … Read more

Triolet: Batten Down the Hatches

We’re hiding from Storm Bella, me and my lockdown crew The kid, our pets, my fella, we’re hiding from Storm Bella while listening to Paul Weller and watching Doctor Who We’re hiding from Storm Bella, me and my lockdown crew

Not In School Today

After Earth Beat by Paul Weller Her banner has a planet on, she’s carrying resistance and insisting that the government takes action for a new start for a cleaner, greener future from today. Her classmates walk beside her, she’s a … Read more

Triolet: Rewilding

We must rewild this island with lynxes, wolves and bears From lowland up to highland We must rewild this island in waterways and dry land with beaver dams and lairs We must rewild this island with lynxes, wolves and bears

Cats’ Entertainment

For my fellow cat-owning Jam fans. Territorial war and a screaming stand-off A recent kill and a ripped-up bench seat Kittens wailing, scared dog howling The screech for food and sharp claws sinking Cats’ entertainment, cats’ entertainment A smash of … Read more