Who was Mary Magdalene? A repentant prostitute who ended her days as a desert contemplative? The secret wife of Jesus? An evangelist and prophet? An apostle, a... Continue reading
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by Fran Lock content warning: working-class girlhood.…and so, into every little life, the washed animal emerges. a girl. something wet and receptive, lowered through form. out of... Continue reading
‘Workers’, by Peter Kennard “Class War, Not Culture Wars!” I’ve heard this phrase – or variations on the general theme – doing the rounds a lot lately.... Continue reading
by Fran Lock, with commons image above / wait for it./ spring to come, reconstitute the stubborn world./ our bodies, tailored to containment./ fault-line forcing an afternoon./... Continue reading
In the title essay from her book Civil Wars (1985) June Jordan writes that ‘In the context of tragedy all polite behaviour is a form of self-denial.’... Continue reading
I was recently in Berlin for the first time. I was invited for the 25th annual Poesiefestival. I was nervous. As the last of my circle to... Continue reading
Fran Lock excoriates the Tories and presents some great poems. Image above: Soldiers Leave the Armed Forces, by Chad McCail I cannot tell a lie, I began... Continue reading
Introduction by Fran Lock Please read the poems below. In Bondage we enter a scene reminiscent of agrarian indentured labour, somewhere (to my mind anyway) in the long... Continue reading
Fran Lock gives the thumbs-down to This Town. Image above: Bardon Quinn (Ben Rose), Gregory Williams (Jordan Bolger), Dante Williams (Levi Brown) (Image: BBC/Banijay Rights/Kudos) So far there’s... Continue reading
Gremlins by Fran Lock “having gotten in, it’s coming out one of two ways: walking or writing.” / we want axioms, maximum sky. not you./ an immobile... Continue reading
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