Jungle Judge Justice is a hard-hitting analysis of the connection between racism and sexism and speciesism through a series of an animal rights based poetry. The poetry ranges from the A to Z of all aspects of animal abuse and every subject between. The poetry explores in story and verse a running river of anthropology to zoology including from abattoirs to zoos and why our environment is dying whilst our seas have the Blues. Jungle Judge Justice is a tough call as poetry books go as the poems cover contemporary and historical subjects with a gimlet eye. It covers many aspects of our world as a prison for animals much as it has been for many vulnerable people throughout our history such as women burned at the stake as witches along with their black cats. So the poems do not shy away from tackling matters within our vision yet often avoided of badger culling, eating animals, fox hunting, slavery and vivisection. A somewhat unusual type of cattle-market, which might take some readers off-guard, is considered: it is a little known quasi-legal practice of men selling their unwanted property to the highest bidder. The 'cattle-market' practice was adopted by men to dispose of their unwanted wives. There is the odd tinge of humour here and there especially with 'Paulo the Pussyfooter' which is a tribute to my magnificent favourite feline friend whose nocturnal activities caused so much nightly concerned joy. Paulo spread such an innocent mixed message that exuded natural happiness for all who knew her, it was almost enough to make her penchant to be a real life cat burglar simply and strictly legal. Our lame leaders and other useless figures of supposed authority who believe that animals and people are just disposal units are challenged head-on with no ready-made easy escape from their unpalatable excuses and lies. A much worse spectacle of serial killers who graduate from abusing animals is examined in several poems. Similarly the link between child abuse, elder abuse and animal abuse is analysed. All in all the points made eloquently by Alice Walker and Abraham Lincoln respectively are dealt with in depth and detail:

'The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.'

'I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.'

'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.'

The roots and routes of racism and sexism and speciesism are considered from many angles yet all guided by the trust that in the end the two related concepts that will prevail over all others are justice and truth. Given the tyranny over people in our modern world exemplified by dictators and megalomaniacs, we are driven to face the 'Time-bomb Heart' of deluded humans towards all animals. The idea captivated within that poem of the killing hills over country roads enjoyed by us over the animal kingdom leads to a Putinesque belief that we can do whatever we wish: 'It's a beautiful day. Let's go out and murder truth.' Such a feeling springs from page-after-page of Jungle Judge Justice. The concentration throughout is on 'rights' rather than merely 'welfare' as who among us would ever choose to be subject to a Human Welfare Act as compared to a Human Rights Act? No one would wish to have less legal rights. Indeed the comparison between those two concepts of rights and welfare illuminate how and why we abuse animals. All that Jungle Judge Justice asks of any reader is that they approach the poems with an open mind and a heart to match. Any reader of a faint-heart or delicate disposition would be...