Only just discovered this thread.
Les B deserves more recognition for his serious, politically sharp and environmentally conscious writings.
In response to Gurney's post of 2005 above - >> not too many people seem to do his stuff .... because I feel he's the definitive performer of his poems << - yes, he is of course, but other folks are starting to realise how acute Les's observations are - I even perform some of them myself, but you really need to hear Pelagie Crofton, a regular performer of Les's work on the Mudcat Worldwide Singarounds. She does a brilliant job...