Factions by Fran Lock / late diagnosis. it’s a language of dragnets and factions./ contractions and stammers. his slack-jaw gravitates./ to globalized consciousness. this corporate scorn, and... Continue reading
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Dr. Fran Lock, shortlisted for the 2023 TS Eliot Poetry Prize, writes about ACE’s recent advice to cultural organisations, and the recent pamphlet Class And Culture: Provocations For... Continue reading
Culture Matters was back at Centrala in Digbeth on the 9th February 2024, to celebrate the launch of Al Hutchins’ stonking cerebral masterwork, Rebel Admin (Culture Matters,... Continue reading
Introduction to ‘Dwell Time’ by Tom Branfoot, Poet in Residence at Manchester Cathedral – see attached pdf By Fran Lock The idea of ‘dwelling’ as homely habitation... Continue reading
How and when the body collapses by Fran Lock / there’s a breach in the breath./ in that which surrounds and circulates./ in the warm gulf between... Continue reading
I began writing this quarterly column looking for reasons to stay ‘hopeful’, whatever that means. I used to know. Or else, I thought I did: something like... Continue reading
Daffodils by Fran Lock and what of them? hardy stragglersbetween wastelands, waste laneswith the weather wetly trepanning the factories. by junctions of squathope, the stooping of resolute... Continue reading
Fran Lock introduces her quarterly poetry column Amidst rolling news coverage of the Titan sub disaster, I scrapped the first draft of this quarter’s column, and began... Continue reading
The last – the only – general strike to take place in Britain was in May 1926. The strike was called by the TUC in support of... Continue reading
Introduction by Fran Lock This story both is and isn’t about Birkbeck. On the one hand, it is absolutely particular to an iconic institution that recently celebrated... Continue reading
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