The British Poetry Society asked poets to write manifestos. In response, Jay Bernard wrote a poem about a tragic fire and the death of children, both as a remembered event and as part of an archives.
Jay Bernard is a writer, film programmer, and archivist from London. This worked linked above was first published in The Poetry Review, 107:3, Autumn 2017, where it appears alongside ‘manifestos’ by Roger Robinson, W.N. Herbert and Rita Ann Higgins.
Keeping (and Telling) the Past 