Blue-bird sings the Blues depicts through poetry the themes that run through the fast-flowing flood of universal animal rights. The poems relate to the Suffragettes who were intent on changing the law to further the status of all women, but were equally fervently engaged in fixing the plight of animals in their protests. They rioted against vivisection. For the Suffragettes saw human rights and animal rights as part of the same problem within our society. Whilst they solved the voting issue regarding some women, the problem for animals existed from time immemorial. So it persists until now and is their likely future at our hands.

When it comes to denying animals a legal status we have a black belt in a human conspiracy parading self-serving lies while dodging truth.

Animal Rights is the final frontier as the last moral crusade of the 21st century. How we treat animals now is similar to how we treated vulnerable people in the past. Hence the themes within the seams of the poems are in turn challenging and urgent by dealing with the explicit and implicit link between the imbued negativity of racism and sexism and speciesism.

Poetry is used as an engine for change by dealing head-on with the hard-hitting points surrounding our denial of rights to all animals. Animal rights are analysed within the poems that cover all aspects of our prejudice towards animals before birth and during their lives.

Everything that impinges upon their role and status within our society from slaughterhouses to abusing cows and sows are under the microscope. The subjects include badger culls,eating animals,serial killers, the price of slavery on the voyage of The Zong plus practising our inherent bias from vivisection to zoos. Such wide-ranging subjects are chosen and analysed to show their past and present trusting we can avoid the same future. All in all the poems reject our self-engendered perpetual ruse by presenting the reason why the sad-eyed Blue-bird sings the Blues.