Thank you Penguin 70 years for sneaking up on me and letting me know
Roger McGough's The State of Poetry.
Who is this poet?

There are Fascists

There are
fascists
pretending
to be
humanitarians

like
cannibals
on a health kick
eating only
vegetarians.

Fame

The best thing
about being famous

is when you walk
down the street

and people turn round
to look at you

and bump into things.

italic

ONCE I LIVED IN CAPITALS
MY LIFE INTENSELY PHALLIC

but now i'm sadly lowercase
with the occasional italic

I also bought Antony Beevor's Christmas at Stalingrad (an excerpt from the opus), H. G. Wells's The Country of the Blind (old favourite), and W.G. Sebald's Young Austerlitz (another excerpt from the opus).

and do take the Penguin Quizzzzzz