Anna Mendelssohn (1948-2009), who wrote under the name Grace Lake, was a British writer, poet and political activist. She came from a left-wing political family, was inspired by the Paris student risings in May 1968, and became a political radical in Britain. Mendelsohn was convicted of conspiracy to cause explosions as part of The Angry Brigade, a ruling she insisted was unjust. After her release she raised a family, resumed her education and devoted her life to art and to poetry. She grew somewhat isolated from the rest of society, but her friends saw to it that some of her work was published.

• from Implacable Art.
• messages left for
• Staged whispers.
• in medéa mé,
• Naturally i
• a man who snatches a ring
• To have life taken twice
• But that wasn't what
• pladd. (you who say either)
• of Lorca.
• I object.
• the ribbon & white
• poetry is the lack
• light on water
• Europa
• friday.
• nowhere receipts cough
• to any who want poems to give them answers.
• Tancred and Garibaldi always slept together
• Addicted to dealing in out of work hours
• birdhall lane
• Art made
• if we are not careful
• Xalon. Salo. Bibilis. Martial.
• Poetry does not deserve evil keepers.
• that there is law breaking
• they never
• wrap yourself in jam jeunesse
• are people armies that their faces
• digne
• virago.
• and Waterloo Westminster
• the second hurled whore.
• serpentine swallow bracken potash arboretum
• at the moment,
• basalt.
• scratching black frosted stained glass
• it is only mind seeing only red hot coals
• L'appris
• My Chekhov's Twilight World
• Concentration camp styles
• underground river.
• to a writer.
• This is the reason
• it was an art & is now a function
• all had them gone
• geo Alkan jeo
• à la France
• that is what you are told
• cosmetic scorn
• cold fifty years of months
• zinzolin.
• bad news / a man / has choked
• I also wish to refer to my loathing
• I know. it sounds tendentious
• Reminiscent of flat expanse
• Zephyrus
• I have been made of no
• Venus 27. ending 20th C ...
• malfaisant
• the lord
• minnie most beats up thérè torchée
• they thought, at midnight, of discs
• they get their own way
• off the cuff
• now that I can collect shades
• premières. scriabin.
• flat hat.
• Ship in a bottle
• fuschia In her wedding gown
• That the whole
• the Use of censored wars
• sudden joustings
• Brahms' numerals.
• The arrested poem
• open the tube cylinder
• Naturalia
• "Je suis navrée de vous contradire."
• someone else is walking