Tim Hollins pays homage to Ernesto Cardenal (1925 – 2020), Nicaraguan poet, priest, politician, and revolutionary Perhaps only in Nicaragua would those 4 terms sit easily to describe... Continue reading
Sally Flint calls for submissions to this new anthology of poems, stories, science writing and images, a collaboration between Culture Matters and Riptide Journal (University of Exeter) ‘We... Continue reading
David Cromwell analyses the way that autocratic, runaway capitalism has corrupted the mainstream media, and why there will not, and cannot, be major changes in society without genuine... Continue reading
John Giddens reviews The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff at The Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne The North East based contemporary folk trio, The Young’uns, tell the tale... Continue reading
The Winning Cock by S. O. Fasrus The winning cock continued crowingEmboldened by his win, and knowingNo fowl could make a bigger dinwhen pecking orders favoured him. Continue reading
Kevin Higgins lays into the Irish literary establishment, and praises The Children of the Nation: An Anthology of Working People’s Poetry from Contemporary Ireland, edited by Jenny Farrell... Continue reading
Tara Hanks interviews Fionn Wilson, an artist and curator of a new exhibition of art inspired by Christine Keeler. Main image: Christine Keeler: Anger, Blame, Shame, Ruin, Grief,... Continue reading
Michael Jarvie reviews the Norman Cornish exhibition currently on at the Bowes Museum, Durham, and takes in the Silver Swan as well The Norman Cornish exhibition at... Continue reading
Tony McKenna reviews Shakespeare’s Tempest and Capitalism: The Storm of History, by Helen C. Scott, which is a fruitful and dialectical analysis revealing organically the aesthetic character of the... Continue reading