Picnic in a Car by Mike Jenkins, with image above by Martin Gollan It’s winter,theyer avin a picnicin theyer car agen,im an erup Cyfarthfa Parkoverlookin-a lakeshaped like... Continue reading
Protest, Words! by Sunil Sharma Time words shed their obesitypassivitybaldness! These must become:weapons forged in fires. Lexical units, not disjointeddisconnectedbut with talons and clawsto tear the collective... Continue reading
A Culture That Fulfils by David Betteridge The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressedis indispensable… I beg you, take the spadeand not the knife. –... Continue reading
Some snowmen had topknots. Some wore football scarves and skull caps. Some had veils over their faces. One had fairy wings. They all began to sing…… Snowfall, friendship... Continue reading
Sisyphus at Royal Mail by John Freeman I’ve never seen Bernard so indignant. It’s the day after the strike. There’s a backlog. I like my job, he... Continue reading
After Auden by Jenny Mitchell About suffering they were never wrong,the slave masters: how hard they whipped until the humans, trapped, were made to kneel; how it... Continue reading
Image above: “Currencies” by 16:9clue is licensed under CC BY 2.0. We live in a disposable age. If any further proof of this was needed, we need... Continue reading
Introduction The rapid spread of the science-based Enlightenment (c1687-c1804) across Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a cause of much dismay to the reigning monarchies... Continue reading
George Bernard Shaw (26th July 1856 to 2nd November 1950) was the second Irish winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded to him two years after... Continue reading