The Acts of Oblivion by Paul Batchelor #lintonkwesijohnson exploring the ways in which

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The Acts of Oblivion by Paul Batchelor #lintonkwesijohnson exploring the ways in whichPublished December 2021. The Acts of Oblivion were a series of seventeenth century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary speech from the record they forced the people to forget. Against such injunctions, Paul Batchelors poems rebel. This long awaited second collection, The Acts of Oblivion, listens in on some of Englands lost futures, such as those