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DOG EAT DOG / THE 20s II / SALT OF THE EARTH – 3 Poems by Ross Wilson
by Ross Wilson DOG EAT DOG ‘the populist right in the UKlook like puppies comparedto the far right across Europe.’ So a writer wrote the dayI read…
Not in that Club
By Pauline Howley Everyone talks about stuff they didin English Literature at schoollike all schools did English Literature. Everyone talks about the great school tripsthey hadlike everyone…
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Commons image of Belfast riots When you forget where your forefathers came from. How they arrived into a country. What they did to the people of that…
A Reform-Led Council
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By Pauline Howley Everyone talks about stuff they didin English Literature at schoollike all schools did English Literature. Everyone talks about the great school tripsthey... Continue reading
Commons image By Dennis Broe Just three months ago the story in AI was one of overspending and a potential bubble that would soon burst.... Continue reading
Commons image of Belfast riots When you forget where your forefathers came from. How they arrived into a country. What they did to the people... Continue reading
By Philippa Greasley No vote, no questions asked, no choicenow we mustsing the Lord’s Prayer at the startand chant the National Anthem at the end“well,... Continue reading
A destroyed mosque in the Jabalia area, Gaza Strip, Palestine By Christopher Norris (After Geoffrey Hill, ‘Ovid in the Third Reich’) I love my nation,... Continue reading
A reproduction of Orwell’s essay By Kristian Williams In a newspaper column from 1946, George Orwell imagined an ideal pub, with the doubly dreamy name,... Continue reading
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A stroll along the tow-path of the Forth & Clyde Canal leads to a chance conversation with an ex-soldier at the Stockingfield Bridge, on the... Continue reading
There is a long tradition of working-class poetry in Italy. Worker-poets like Sandro Sardella, Luigi di Ruscio and Tommaso di Ciaula described the reality of... Continue reading