Refugee Blues first of ten poems grouped together in "Ten Songs", which also includes the above-mentioned "Calypso". Refugee Blues "Refugee Blues" is a poem by W. H. Auden, written in 1939, one of a number of poems Auden wrote in the mid- to late-1930s in blues and other popular metres, for example the meter he used in his love poem "Calypso", written around the same time. The poem dramatizes the condition of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the years before World War II, especially the indifference and antagonism they faced when seeking asylum in the democracies of the period. In some
Blues Funeral Canada in May. "Blues Funeral" was released to positive critical acclaim. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 77, based on 26 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews." "MOJO" reviewer Keith Cameron said that "no other singer of his generation plumbs the depths so credibly, or does mournful with such grace," awarded the album a full five stars and referred to it as an "instant "MOJO" classic." Tom Hughes of "The Guardian" awarded the album three out of five stars and described it as "bluesy, lugubrious,