When Arthur Met Maggie Patricia Sarrafian Ward A poet of distinction

A poet of distinction

like hands

and turns her into an owl as punishment for her disloyalty

the first time this award was given to a poet

Bass player Coleridge Goode recalls his Jamaican childhood

When Arthur Met Maggie Patricia Sarrafian Ward A poet of distinctionAlthough their relationship was one of the most important in post war public life, they never met. But for a year in the 1980s Arthur Scargill and Margaret Thatcher were on opposite sides of a conflict that decided some of the most important questions in contemporary Britain. More than that, they were central to the process of bringing traditional British politics to an end. It was a meeting all right, in every sense but that of being in the same room