These poems are successful in there rootedness, they are soaked in a sense of place, and you have a strong connection to the Liverpool that Madelaine invokes.
Death of a Baroness is an expression of anger and pain, the relationship of Liverpool with Thatcher, like many industrial cities the economy policies of the 1980s were painful in their consequences, but this was heightened by Hillsborough and the whole way the Police and wider Establishment acted to place blame on the fans, the victims. This legacy is still felt in Liverpool, and I reflected that many of these emotions and reactions are familiar to Gay men, and LGBTQ+ people more generally, as the 1980s was a dark time for so many.
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