In this article for the Our Culture series, we look at the state of contemporary British poetry. It is a world laced with creative potential, yet continuously colonised by the rules of the market, the social media spectacle, and as ever metropolitan gatekeeping.

Andy Croft, poet, author and publisher of Smokestack books, reflects on the effects of decades of cultural privatisation, from the closure of libraries and local arts programmes to their centralisation in London-based institutions. He looks at how the poetry scene has been transformed into an individualistic, prize-driven competition, thus leaving small presses, and once thriving local networks struggling to survive.

In this instalment of Our Culture, we explore the contradictions at the heart of one of the world’s most profitable and precarious creative industries: video games. Scott…

Robin Hood, now streaming on MGM+ and Amazon By Dennis Broe These days, the Robin Hood myth, legend and factual account continue to exert a powerful pull,…

Mike Quille continues the ‘Our Culture’ series with a summary of the Culture Matters mission; an overview of the general problems in cultural provision, defined broadly to…