The song, Last Kind Words Blues, was recorded in 1930 in a makeshift studio in Grafton, Wisconsin, and issued by Paramount Records as one side of a 78 rpm shellac disc with the musicians name given as Geeshie Wiley. Its not a straightforward lyric. Its not about slavery, but slavery is there in it. Its about the victims of war, but forgets that it is. - Peter RileyPeter Riley then invited responses from other poets and the results are here, with contributions from Tony Baker, Kelvin Corcoran, Ian Duhig , Khaled Hakim, Michael Haslam, Peter Hughes, Tom Lowenstein, Laura Potts, John Seed, Zoë Skoulding, Jon Thompson and Judith Willson.
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