The Urban Time Bomb

by D'Persona

Overview

The UK is witnessing a significant rise in gang culture and the urban violence is spreading through our inner city streets at alarming rates. Post codes have become 'red flags' and our youth are becoming increasingly synonymous with bulls raging in a bid to defend their own territory. Our children, our teenagers (and oftentimes even younger kids) are caught up in an environment that remorselessly breeds societal depravity and decay. Our babies are having babies, drugs are readily available, promiscuity is commonplace, racial prejudice is still a part and parcel of today's society and peer pressure is running amok in high schools all across the UK. Nothing shocks our children anymore and its getting worse by the day. Smouldering just under the surface of almost every inner city pavement in the UK is an urban time bomb just waiting to explode in our faces.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940032807537
Publisher:	D'Persona
Publication date:	09/13/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Hi, I am Donna Parkinson AKA D'Persona...a 43 year old self confessed accidental poet and the owner of Mad Jock Publishers. A family run self publishing business. I am here to share some of the poetry that I originally took up when my best friend Angela Edgar "inspired" me to write after her 1st book launch. Since taking up this writing lark in February 2008 I have written in excess of 1000 poems and have self published 4 books of my own... I write mainly about gun and knife crime,peer pressure,social responsibility and gang affiliation in a style that todays youth can clearly understand and hopefully relate to. I write to make a difference to our streets and to effect change in our communities. I believe we need to re-educate this generation and save then from themselves as the social realities envolved in our collective failure to do so is way to ugly to comprehend for our childrens children. Eventually I want to set up some Poetry/Music workshops with disadvantaged children in my local area. Its been a mad 2 and a half years for me as I just kind of fell into poetry... in fact my friends call me the accidental poet!!! I never knew that I had the ability to write until Angee was interviewed at her book launch and asked what would make all the hard work she had put into her book worthwhile... and she said that if she inspired just one person to start writing as a result of reading her book it would have all been worth it.... I looked around the room and remember thinking.... "bloody hell I better write something cos I don't think any of this lot are gonna do it"...so I went home and wrote her a poem and sent ot to her the next day telling her that she had inspired me to write... She said that it was actually really good and asked me to do another... and then another and before I knew it I was 'writing to order. Colleagues were giving me titles at lunchtime and I was knocking them out pieces and before I knew it I had written loads of stuff and was actually enjoying it..... WHO'D HAVE THOUGHT EH? 6 months down the line I had enough material to self publish my first book..... and the rest as they say is history!! By day I work as a Field Services Director in a London based Market Research agency but as I said above I also own a small self publishing company called Mad Jock Publishers. They published my first 2 books and then the originator k, Rols Sperling found it increasingly difficult to secure the time needed to dedicate to the project along w...