On the ‘Labour’ Government’s despicable Pathways to Work Green Paper announced on 18 March 2025 by Alan Morrison Labour will set you free, deny your disability,Neoliberalism is... Continue reading
The ‘Labour’ Government’s Green Paper Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working amounts to a cranking up of more Tory-style persecution of the... Continue reading
Bitterly, I was forced to be absent from the Cockpit Theatre swansong event for Smokestack Books last December due to a combination of ill health, stormy weather... Continue reading
As we voyage through the uncharted waters of the post-Covid 2020s to the scourge of war again on the European continent, and in the Middle East, a... Continue reading
Fourteen Years Fourteen years have torn the nation’s soul,Ripped it apart & warped it with hate,History will recount the Tory toll. Austerity, Brexit, Windrush, Grenfell,Atos, Partygate, Do... Continue reading
White Phosphorus A Ghazal for Gaza written on 5th November 2023 All Hallows’ Eve 2023, tenth anniversaryOf my mother’s passing from Huntington’s Disease; Outside the half-curtained living... Continue reading
“Salty Terms” to Deter Asylum Seekers (An extended villanelle or ‘villanelle-vague’) “If they don’t like barges then they should f*** off back to France” ... Continue reading
Alan Morrison introduces his republican poetry collection published by Culture Matters in time for the Coronation. [Note: This article was originally published on 5 May 2023]. One... Continue reading
I’ve known journalist and lecturer Jan Goodey for many years and was shocked and saddened to learn he had been sentenced last November to a six-month jail... Continue reading
Green Hauntings draws selections from four of Alan Morrison’s first six full volumes of poetry: The Mansion Gardens (2006), A Tapestry of Absent Sitters (2009), Blaze a Vanishing... Continue reading