In Fools' Paradise, a mock-heroic poem on Brexit which complements
his masque King Charles the Wise, Nicholas Hagger presents the most
important British event since the Second World War: the Brexiteers'
struggle to wrest control of the UK's laws, borders, money and
trade from the EU and turn the UK into a more prosperous paradise.
In 16 cantos and an epilogue of heroic couplets with an epic tone
he narrates the 2018 Chequers compromise and its aftermath: the
EU's opposition, lack of internal support, looming 'no deal' and
requests for extensions that keep the UK in the EU. He shows the UK
Ship of State as manned by a squabbling crew sailing for an
illusory paradise and too riven by division to reach agreement. The
dream all were promised seems undeliverable. In the tradition of
the social satire of Dryden and Pope, the elevated style is
undermined by a recurring image of the Ship of Fools in Sebastian
Brant's 1494 Swiss poem Ship of Fools (Das Narrenschiff), which
makes a chaotic voyage from Europe to an illusory paradise across
the waves. It becomes apparent that all on the UK Ship of State are
to some extent living in a fools' paradise. Focusing on the
historic decision to leave Europe that if carried through would
have immense repercussions for coming generations, Nicholas Hagger
presents the warring factions on the UK Ship of State and in true
Universalist manner foresees a resolution of the conflict in the
reconciliation of a coming united world. This is an astonishing
poem that approaches the most important national event of our time
in the spirit of Tennyson and gets to the heart of the UK's
national predicament.
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