Archive - The Writerly Doubt

Writing is political

May 11 • Richard Pierce

April 2026

banned by spotify

Apr 23 • Richard Pierce

March 2026

These are the spaces I inhabit

finding room for everything isn't easy

Mar 15 • Richard Pierce

January 2026

They Have Always Murdered Poets

in response to Renee Good's murder

Jan 14 • Richard Pierce

not superstition

we lend the land to the humans in return they abuse it and us without thanks or thought believe their artificial divisions make their pathetic parcels…

Jan 9 • Richard Pierce

The World Order

Betrayals have a way of succeeding at first, Until the betrayed have the courage to stand Together against the betrayer.

Jan 6 • Richard Pierce

December 2025

One Last Thing This Year

For all the darkness in me, I am a bright light, and that Negative impulse a minority Of me which I have taught myself To laugh at and banish Most of…

Dec 31, 2025 • Richard Pierce

but not giving up the light

Dec 24, 2025 • Richard Pierce

November 2025

This is what I want to say

words and music and meaning

Nov 18, 2025 • Richard Pierce

September 2025

Violence breeds violence

the cycle needs to be broken

Sep 12, 2025 • Richard Pierce

Labour's Love Lost

and they've lost their way, too

Sep 2, 2025 • Richard Pierce

August 2025

A return to polemic

Two political poems

Aug 23, 2025 • Richard Pierce