Edited by Alistair Findlay, Morning Star, £12.50, available here By Andy Croft Poetry is in the news a lot these days. We have recently been subjected to celebrity... Continue reading
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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... Continue reading
The Tiger Montage, by John J Heartfield, Germany 1931 Once there was a little girl called Sophieand she was having tea with her mummy in the kitchen.Suddenly... Continue reading
Here is a link to the launch of Release the Sausages! Poems for Keir Starmer and panel discussion at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle, on Wednesday 30 July... Continue reading
INTRODUCTION by Andy Croft Escape to Moribundia is the last in a trilogy of verse-novels written in Pushkin sonnets (the others being Ghost Writer and Nineteen Forty-eight).... Continue reading
Andy Croft reviews Shabbigentile, by Alan Morrison. There is a long poem in Alan Morrison’s fantastic new collection Shabbigentile (Culture Matters, £9, available here) about the 1930s... Continue reading
archy says hooray by Andy Croft boss i have heardsome human beans thinkhungry and homeless peopleare like cockroaches iam flattered at last some humans beans feelsorry for... Continue reading
Andy Croft reviews a new book out about the communist composer Alan Bush. The composer Alan Bush (1900-95) is usually described as a man of unresolved contradictions,... Continue reading
The Guardian recently ran an article on plagiarism in poetry by Will Storr. Andy Croft, author of two very widely read and influential articles on Culture Matters, The Privatisation of Poetry and Poetry Belongs to... Continue reading
Andy Croft reports on his recent visit to Basra, for the Al-Marbed international poetry festival. I have never seen so many people at a poetry festival before... Continue reading
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