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14 Aug

Striving for utopia in the ruins: Review of ‘Coal and Fire: Poems of Labour, Memory and Inheritance’

Posted byNick Moss

The book is available here By Nick Moss If part of the purpose of Culture Matters is to give voice to descriptions of the lived experience of... Continue reading

14 Aug

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Scorched Earth and other poems

Posted bySally Richards

By Sally Richards Scorched Earth Fires rage:horizon a haze of dusty grassesawaiting their fate –flames lick, spit, chase, roar –demonic acrobatsengulf, consume;in their wake gothic bleakness. Green... Continue reading

14 Aug

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Mother Courage and Her Children: those who sup with the devil

Posted byFlora Leeper

Photo: Marc Brenner By Flora Leeper The Globe’s production of Mother Courage and her Children, translated by Anna Jordan, directed by Elle While and starring Michelle Terry,... Continue reading

14 Aug

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The Hammers

Posted byRoger Cornish

By Roger Cornish They’d crammed through theTurnstiles by the thousandsHundreds of thousands seasonAfter season Made him a Millionaire He transferred from theHammersTo a Big Club up North... Continue reading

14 Aug

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Titian and the Crisis of Renaissance Humanism

Posted byJenny Farrell

Venus of Urbino, 1538 By Jenny Farrell The 450th anniversary of Titian’s death on 27 August 1576 is a good opportunity to revisit the Venetian master – ... Continue reading

13 Aug

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Propulsive plainsong: Rita Ann Higgins

Posted byCiarán O'Rourke

Ciarán O'Rourke reviews Rita Ann Higgins' Jiving with Wasps: New and Selected Poems. Continue reading

11 Aug

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Journal of Class and Culture – Fourth Annual Conference

Posted byDeirdre ONeill

University of the West of England, Stoke Gifford, England Saturday 3 October • 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM Organised by University of Hertfordshire and University of the... Continue reading

11 Aug

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Workers Are Downing Tools

Posted byOwen Gallagher

Workers by Peter Kennard By Owen Gallagher Workers are downing tools.They’re downing picks and shovels,hods and drills, leaving conveyor beltsand tills. They’re downing clipboardsand keyboards, scalpels, and... Continue reading

11 Aug

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Storm the Heights of Culture: Public Art in the German Democratic Republic

Posted byCulture Matters

Public art in the German Democratic Republic The Tricontinental Art Bulletin Today, there is growing recognition of the German Democratic Republic’s (DDR) building-integrated art and the type... Continue reading

06 Aug

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Viral

Posted byAnne Enith Cooper

Image of U.S./Israeli strike on Iran by Anadolou Agency By Anne Enith Cooper Scroll, scroll, freeze. And I’m lookinginto the eyes of a boy cryingfor the the... Continue reading

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