David Peace – A Prediction for the Year 2009

As part of his takeover of guardian.co.uk/music, Jarvis Cocker commissioned a poem from one of his favourite writersJarvis says: "Last year, there was much debate as to whether or not Margaret Thatcher's death would warrant a state funeral or not. I asked the writer David Peace to compose a poem on the subject. Peace wrote it in the style of WH Auden's Funeral Blues." Here it is, published for the first time ... A Prediction for the Year 2009One fine and awful day, thirty years too late, in a fu...

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