September 11th 2001

The original text of Godfrey Rust’s poem.

September 11, 2001 was read at services at St Johns Church, Ealing on Sunday September 16th, and has been published extensively since. Click here for the text of the shorter version which has been most widely circulated on the internet, or for the full original version.

Marking the anniversary, some poems written in the aftermath:

Precautions

Promises

Vengeance

Osama

The Accounting of the Dead

These poems may be freely copied or used for any non-commercial purpose.

 

Collected poems by Godfrey Rust

Godfrey Rust  Welcome To The Real World

Collected poems & performance pieces 1980-2000

Wordsout paperback ISBN 0952021218

 

Wordsout catalogue

Donald McRobbie  Love Reaches Out CD and cassette, 1999

Shattock & Rust  Forgiven Like This  CD and cassette, 1995

Donald McRobbie  Highest Acclaim  cassette, 1993

Shattock & Rust  The Rock Beneath cassette, 1989

 

Out of print 

Godfrey Rust Breaking the Chains (now replaced by Welcome to the Real World)

Wordsout/Nelson Word paperback ISBN 095202120X, 1992

Shattock & Rust Facts  cassette, 1985