by Nick Moss Scout Szofiya Bolton wrote the poems collected here as reflections on the experience of serving a prison sentence, further to attempting to hold up... Continue reading
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Installation view of Mickalene Thomas: All About Love. Mama Bush: (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me), Higher and Higher, (2009). Photo: Mark Blower. Courtesy the artist and the... Continue reading
by Nick Moss When I began writing poetry in jail, there were a core group of writers who influenced me – Bertolt Brecht, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Pablo... Continue reading
Recently I attended a meeting organised by the Liverpool writers’ group Writing on the Wall, to gather ideas for the 25th version of their annual May literature... Continue reading
by Nick Moss “…the poet’s function is to describe , not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen” – Aristotle, The... Continue reading
Photo: Marcus and his brother Jahziah by Nick Moss History repeats, ploughs on unceasing, Another dying man, another father, Brother, friend shot dead . Cold, Christmas-crisp air... Continue reading
By Nick Moss Here’s a fucking joke. Three blokes having a pissing contest. Bibi, Blinken, Biden.Bibi stands legs wide, hosing, smiling self-satisfied at his gushing red-blood flow.Blinken... Continue reading
This is a brief review of a relatively brief text, although the brevity of the text does not reflect its significance or relevance. Caleb Femi has already... Continue reading
Nigel Falange MP. He’s ditched the Gieves and Hawkes country squire Master of the Hunt outfit because that race has been won. The “man of the people”... Continue reading
Nick Moss reviews Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider, at the Tate Modern, London, to 20 October 2024. Image above: Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau – Johannisstrasse from a... Continue reading
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