The CPB recently published a short pamphlet with brief essays or ‘provocations’ on a sample of cultural activities, which is available to download below. Here, Jim Aitken... Continue reading
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Celtic Connections put on a wonderful concert recently, in memory of Scotland’s great Marxist revolutionary, John Maclean (1879 -1923). Glasgow’s magnificent concert hall had the 2,000 strong audience... Continue reading
Tomorrow’s Feast by Gerda Stevenson is her third poetry collection. It is presented in several sections with a prologue called Albatross that tries to understand why the... Continue reading
In the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, city and church leaders cancelled all Christmas festivities this year to mourn the more than... Continue reading
Uday, One Day by Jim Aitken In memory of Uday Abu Mohsen who lived only one dayafter being killed during the Siege of Gaza, 2023. Uday was... Continue reading
Sixty years ago, in 1963, an Aeroflot flight from Moscow was on route to Havana and had to stop at Shannon airport due to fog. Shannon, then... Continue reading
Jim Aitken reviews Welcome to Britain: An Anthology of Poems and Short Fiction, edited by Ambrose Musiyiwa and published by CivicLeicester In 2019 CivicLeicester published Bollocks to Brexit: An... Continue reading
Sunken Levels by Jim Aitken It was the first item on the newsfor days, the Titan submersibletaking a group to see the Titanic wreck. The loss of... Continue reading
Pastuso in Rwanda by Jim Aitken First they came for my dear friend, Mr Samuel Gruber,who came originally from Hungary, I think.Then they came for me early... Continue reading
Ward 72, Room 21 by Jim Aitken Through the large hospital windowthere are mountains of grey cloudwhich resemble the state of my lungs. Though happy enough to... Continue reading
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