Welsh independent Parthian Books (via the Bookseller) is publishing “an anthology of poems chosen by international political figures […]”. I thought it would be fun to take a look at what poems our “leaders” like to read, or say they do!
* Gerry Adams: W.B. Yeats’ The Lake Isle of Innisfree
* Gordon Brown: James Stockinger’s The Hands of Others
* Ariel Sharon: Naomi Shemer’s We are Both from the Same Village
* Dr Ian Paisley: Pastor James Kyle Paisley’s I Must Go On
* Gerhard Schroeder: Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Panther
* Tony Blair: Rubert Brooke’s The Soldier
* Anders Fogh Rasumussen: Piet Hein’s Living in the Moment
* Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga: Kahlil Gibran’s Pity the Nation
* Hans Goran Persson: Par Lagerkvist’s The Path on Which You are Walking
* Carlos Diego Mesa Gisbert: Jorge Luis Borges’ The Game of Chess
* Jose Maria Aznar Lopez: Rudyard Kipling’s If
shigekuni.
Books, mostly.
