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• 16: The Age Of Discontent - a ranting, rhyming, revolting review of the year
From the EU referendum to the Chilcot report, the floods to Oscar Pistorius, from the Queen’s birthday to the attempted dethronement of Jeremy Corbyn – 2016 was a huge year in politics and society. All these and more are chronicled in verse.
• Autism Equality in the Workplace: removing barriers and challenging discrimination
Published in April 2016 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, this is an essential handbook for those campaigning in support of autistic workers and for autism-friendly workplaces. With a foreword by John McDonnell MP, it provides practical advice to tackle discrimination in a society where only 15% of autistic adults have full-time employment.
• Disaffected Middle-aged Women
A book and a performance of poetry from halfway through life's journey.
• Guilty and Proud of it: Poplars Rebel Councillors and Guardians 1919-25
The inspiring story of the 'rates rebellion' in the impoverished East London borough of Poplar after the First World War. Published by Merlin Press, 2009.
• Minnie Lansbury: suffragette, socialist, rebel councillor
A biography of a daughter of Jewish immigrants who became a fighter for women's votes, against war and for socialism, who died shortly after a spell in prison as part of the successful Poplar Council rates rebellion. Published in November 2018 by Five Leaves.
• Mostly Hating Tories: poems by Janine Booth
33 of Janine's finest rhymes, published in February 2015. Buy it for just three quid.
• Plundering London Underground: private capital and public service 1997-2010
The story of New Labour's disastrous 'Public-Private Partnership' on London's Tube, the resistance to it, and an outline of a socialist alternative. Published by Merlin Press, 2013.
• Poetry anthologies
Janine's poems have appeared in numerous anthologies. More information about them is here!
• CoronaVerses: poems from the pandemic
Published as the Covid-19 crisis really started to bite, this anthology was put together by Janine (with help from Attila the Stockbroker) and features over fifty poems by many varied poets.
• NeurodiVERSE
An anthology of poems by neurodivergent (autistic, dyslexic, dyspraxic, ADHD, etc) writers, co-edited by Janine and others, and published by Flapjack Press in 2022.
• Poetry books
Janine's collections of poetry. Or, collections of Janine's poetry. Whichever.
• Fighting Tories: The Force Awakens
This poetry collection, published at the start of 2020, takes Tory Britain by the scruff of the neck.
• The Big J vs The Big C: issues, experiences and poems in the battle against breast cancer
In late 2016, Janine discovered a strange indentation in her right breast and was subsequently diagnosed with breast cancer.This book is a collection of candid and enthralling journal extracts, poetry, meticulous research and substantive politics, in which Janine details her journey from detection and diagnosis, through surgery, to ‘getting over it’.
• The 3Rs - Ranting Rhyming Revolting: more poems by Janine Booth
Janine's second book of verse, featuring over sixty poems.