Finally, in printed form, the poems from Louise’s BBC3
commission ‘Love is a Battlefield’ make a wonderful pamphlet The
Uniform Factory is modern war poetry marching to it’s own syncopated rhythm.
Anti-war. Pro-soldier. It documents and
dreams the after-affects of economic conscription, war in Afghanistan and PTSD.
Gallows-humour standing shoulder to shoulder with bitter anger.
The collection is punctuated by landays- a
Pashtun poetic form, traditionally spread woman to woman, changing, rebelling
and re-mixing in the telling.
Written from the
perspective of the families left behind in Northern England