Echoing the ArchIn memory of Desmond Tutu (1931 – 2021) by David Betteridge He was portrayed as a dancing man,and one given to laughter,but he marched as... Continue reading
30-year-old Irish author Sally Rooney has been in the headlines following her refusal to grant the translation rights of her new novel Beautiful World, Where Are You... Continue reading
Under Their Sweaty Wings by Fred Voss I have had many fathers between tin wallsonewho told me to lay a crescent wrench across the jaws of a... Continue reading
Luke Callinan sketches the life of Constance Farrington (see image above), translator of Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth Last month marked 70 years since the passing of... Continue reading
David Douglass review Colliers: Northumberland’s Pitmen and Their Football League Team, by Jon Tait, Rough Badger Press ISBN 9798532247727 The coalfields of the 20’s were a hotbed... Continue reading
Jim Aitken analyses the links between philosophical and cultural relativism, anti-intellectualism and far right politics, in a wide-ranging, discursive essay. The image above is of the Night of the... Continue reading
What is History, Discuss? “History is and was and so is that patch/ of pavement” begins ‘What is History, Discuss?’, the poem that opens Whatsname Street (Smokestack... Continue reading
3 poems from ‘Nadir’ by Laura Fusco translated by Caroline Maldonado: The following poems are taken from a forthcoming collection, Nadir by Laura Fusco, the sequel to... Continue reading
Alun Rees reviews Sex on Toast, Selected Poems by Tôpher Mills (Parthian, £10) What to say of this astonishment of a book? How to encapsulate it in... Continue reading
Thomas Kinsella has died, aged 93. He must be counted among the great Irish poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. He was very involved in uncovering... Continue reading