Dave Lordan continues his series on culture, class and civilisation About 10,000 years ago, after 3.6 million years of the Stone Age, humanity began to slowly and... Continue reading
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The Burden of Ownership by Jenny Mitchell He measures cost in body parts. A head paysfor a month of food; two eyes a week of drink.Christmas adds... Continue reading
Run on the food bank by Mick O’Sullivan Unwanted crumbs are swept here, for today’s bumper giveaway. Proud feathers ruffle ‘midst flap and kerfuffle.Heads turn sharp, nervously... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell introduces the famous anti-war book, as we near the 50th anniversary of Erich Maria Remarque’s death. Image by Photofest World War I was termed the war that... Continue reading
Moonshot haiku by Laura Taylor Moonshot ambition; bukkake for the nation. Pass the flannel, please. Impressions of a Curate’s Egg by Laura Taylor It was the best... Continue reading
She Died Alone by Mike Jenkins She died there in hospital,no husband, Sissy, daughter Ingridno church kin around herand at her funeral of regulation 10her own Lusamba... Continue reading
As increasingly militarised police forces and emboldened white supremacists provoke and attack people of colour and their allies, Ciarán O’Rourke shows the relevance of Langston Hughes’ political... Continue reading
Lyndsey Ayre writes about the class problem in publishing On the inside cover of the 2019 edition of Tove Ditlevsen’s Childhood – the first of her autobiographical... Continue reading
Karl Parkinson presents The People Died, published in his recent collection Sacred Symphony (Culture Matters) The poem has been made into a video by poet and videographer Dave... Continue reading
Sean Ledwith writes about how colonialism and racism has conditioned the history of Test cricket between Pakistan and England This summer’s Test series between England and Pakistan... Continue reading
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