£12.00 inc. p. and p. Since the start of the genocidal war by Israel against the Palestinian people, poems have flooded in to Culture Matters.... Continue reading
MICHELANGELO
Forget the Words
Welcome to Culture Matters
You’ll find recent articles and poems on this Home page. All our other material can be found under the relevant topic sections in the Arts, Culture and Books Hubs. Everything on Culture Matters has been contributed freely. We are a registered co-operative, rooted in the labour movement, set up to promote cultural democracy.
If you would like to help with this work, please visit our Support page. You’re also welcome to contribute articles, essays, poems and artworks to info@culturematters.org.uk. We hope you enjoy browsing the site, and that you find it entertaining, enlightening and inspiring.
Culture Matters!
Arts Hub Latest
We Are All Palestinians
£12.00 inc. p. and p. Since the start of the genocidal war by Israel against the Palestinian people, poems have flooded in to Culture Matters. We have...
If Trump were critiquing a Trump speech
(Photo credit: NASA/Paul E. Alers) by Alan McCormick You heard his speech, right? So-called President. Not good. Not good at his job. Not a good person, as…
Not Whilst I’m Alive
Death camp echoesas Sieg Heiltakes to the stage the war is back,our forefathers have risenfrom their marble memorials The cenotaphs are emptyas a new generation joins themto…
The World Directed by David Lynch
A beautiful blue sky, white picket fences,perfect red roses sway elegant in the breeze,a serene perfect suburban American dream,all is tea and serenity, all is still blue…
Culture Hub Latest
If Trump were critiquing a Trump speech
(Photo credit: NASA/Paul E. Alers) by Alan McCormick You heard his speech, right? So-called President. Not good. Not good at his job. Not a good person, as…
WRITING ON THE WALL 2025
Recently I attended a meeting organised by the Liverpool writers’ group Writing on the Wall, to gather ideas for the 25th version of their annual May literature…
Victoria, Poldark, and Brexit cultural nationalism
Poldark series All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed which was not of man’s own contriving.Winston Graham Ross Poldark (1945) Introduction The recent drama, Victoria (2016-2019) on…
Power, class, sex and religion: lessons from the Welby case
It is not only about sex and religion. It is also about power and class. The Church of England is in chaos: just weeks after Justin Welby…
Latest Books
Popular Articles
Recently I attended a meeting organised by the Liverpool writers’ group Writing on the Wall, to gather ideas for the 25th version of their annual... Continue reading
Death camp echoesas Sieg Heiltakes to the stage the war is back,our forefathers have risenfrom their marble memorials The cenotaphs are emptyas a new generation... Continue reading
A beautiful blue sky, white picket fences,perfect red roses sway elegant in the breeze,a serene perfect suburban American dream,all is tea and serenity, all is... Continue reading
by Nick Moss “…the poet’s function is to describe , not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen” –... Continue reading
by Steve Pottinger, with image above by Martin Gollan my sisters, my friends. It is so easyto pick up the first stone and cast it.To... Continue reading
by Christopher Norris You can call me his chief protector,You can call me his hired gun,Or his strong-arm press-deflectorSince it’s one of the jobs I’ve... Continue reading
Poldark series All men were born in the same way: no privilege existed which was not of man’s own contriving.Winston Graham Ross Poldark (1945) Introduction The recent... Continue reading
poem and image above by Lewis Wyn Davies It’s not only the goalsthat wet both eyes.Not only the numberof market towns, cathedral citiesand bashful hamlets... Continue reading