Write Out Loud reviews Stand Up and Spit – The Big One.
The Big J, Janine Booth, was a proper Ranting poet in the 1980s, who has returned to the poetry scene after a long absence in which she has been actively involved in trade union campaigns. The Marxist and socialist-feminist is still “mostly hating Tories”, the title of her recent collection, but also read a highly effective poem called ‘Real Rape’.
