I hope this poem shows vividly that there's more to a teapot than a lid and a spout. Bomber's Moon is set during the Sheffield Blitz of the 12th. and 15th. of December 1940. Much of the City Centre and the residential areas were destroyed by raids from the Luftwaffe. There is a ground-gaining theory that in their attempt to destroy Sheffield's capacity to provide high quality steel for the war effort, they found their Radio Beacon location system distorted by the British War Department technicians and were fooled into thinking that they were bombing the East End factories. No-one told the Civilian population. In total over 660 people were killed, 1,500 injured and 40,000 made homeless in two nights of bombing.
