Sunday 16 February, 5pm, The Cockpit, Gateforth St., London NW8 8EH An evening of radical poetry, headlined by the extraordinary and original Fran Lock (2023 T. S.... Continue reading
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-S69279 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Chasm by S. J. Litherland 1940 / 1945 O children who did not sit in the shelter in your siren suit,a... Continue reading
John Green reviews a novel fitting nicely into the mainstream ideological narrative, showinghow an aesthetically satisfying cultural experience can nevertheless convey reactionary political meanings Schlink’s novel, The... Continue reading
Benefactor: Introduction, by Paul McDonald Readers of Wayne Dean-Richards’ short story collection, Money and Blood (2023), will recognise the terrain of this superb novella, available to download... Continue reading
£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... 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 joins themto... 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 drama, Victoria (2016-2019) on... Continue reading
by Susan Lindsay, with image above by Martin Gollan Villain. Beloved justicePresident elect, Inauguration weekwe love democracy, that each vote countsbut not always the countedshouting, ‘Fraud, Clear... Continue reading
Nothing There are forty of us in my class,a symphony of sniffing and snotsdragging themselves up nostrils,making me feel like vomitingon the boy in front of me.... Continue reading