School Trip by Ceinwen Haydon, with image by Steev Burgess Mam can I go please can I go please all my friends are another note from school ... Continue reading
The Count by Caroline Maldonado First imagine Self in a shut room the curtainpulled tight When he comes for you again your heart like a... Continue reading
Blooding by Rebecca Lowe ‘After the first, it becomes easier,’The cold, wild-eyed stare of the deer,A crazy fish-eye lens looking backwardsthrough terror – you shiver,You are only... Continue reading
Cheap flights, cheap hands, cheap lives by Antoniy T. Georgiev They pour into the WestCheap flights, cheap hands, cheap livesThey wear the paint of the oppressorsYet share... Continue reading
The Masks of Anarchy by Barry Smith The song of the Thames-side boatmenAs they sail the ship of stateRings out across the choppy watersWhile the winds of... Continue reading
Keith Flett celebrates the key social role of the pub As we enter the New Year the Dry January campaign is once again active. It is a... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell introduces This Road of Mine, by Seosamh Mac Grianna, translated by Mícheál Ó hAodha. Published by The Lilliput Press, 2020. One of several important, socialist Irish language writers of the... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell reviews Exiles, by Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, translated by Mícheál Ó hAodha (Parthian, 2020) Awareness of working-class literature is only growing slowly in Ireland. This is... Continue reading
When Jeremy The Wicked Ruled His World ‘Stick your hands up. This is a fucking robbery!’Two animal-masked men bounced up the steps of the tour bus with... Continue reading