THE LAST CASTLE OF KEMAL

THE LAST CASTLE
Poems of identity and the human condition. 

DARREN BLANCHARD
Copyright © 2025 Darren Blanchard
All rights reserved.

Self-published by Darren Blanchard
Cover photograph ‘The Last Castle’ © 2025 Darren Blanchard

The Last Castle of Kemal – Contents

1 January, 00 Hours 30
A Bar at the Folies-Bergere
Accept the Pretty Lies
All of Us
Brief Custodian
Droplet
Everyone’s a Newspaper
Flag II
If We Always Won
Leviathan Inside
Little Oligarch
Meaningless Sculpture
Perpetual Immigrant
The Last Castle of Kemal
Time to Walk Away

The Last Castle of Kemal – Contents1 January, 00 Hours 30A Bar at the Folies-BergereAccept the Pretty LiesAll of UsBrief CustodianDropletEveryone’s a NewspaperFlag IIIf We Always WonLeviathan InsideLittle OligarchMeaningless SculpturePerpetual ImmigrantThe Last Castle of KemalTime to Walk Away