Wild Court

An international poetry journal based in the English Department of King’s College London

Gary Jude

  • ‘Patwá’ – a poem by Gary Jude

    ‘Patwá’ – a poem by Gary Jude

            Patwá   When I was a young boy, Sundays spoke a strange tongue: Jesus and his gang of bells, the cry of the rag’n bone man clip-clopping down our street, and sometimes I’d hear fascists, communists, feminists and anarchists at Speakers Corner in Hyde Park. But it was the Patwá my father…