The Good Landlord, by Ethan and Kalman Dean-Richards, Pound Road Productions By James O’Brien The living Hell of extortionate and excessive rent for substandard and insecure accommodation... Continue reading
By Merryn Williams The crime did not go unrecorded.The phone link worked, her voice was heard.She found the fame she never wanted;her picture rockets round the world.... Continue reading
By Steve Pottinger Leading by example, Shabanais there, on Dover beach. Waiting. Making sure the cameragets her good side, hair glinting in the morning light. Lookingresolute in... Continue reading
Every One Still Here – Stories, by Liadán Ní Chuinn, Granta 2025, £14.99; The Stinging Fly, €12.00. By Jenny Farrell Liadán Ní Chuinn’s stunning short story collection... Continue reading
Mike Quille continues the ‘Our Culture’ series with a summary of the Culture Matters mission; an overview of the general problems in cultural provision, defined broadly to... Continue reading
Image by Alan McGuire By Maria Trbojevic Close your eyes now, child of Palestine. Tonight whilst you sleep beneath the fingers of tracer fire that crisscross the... Continue reading
Culture Matters is seeking poems for a new anthology to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1926 General Strike. We want to celebrate and memorialise the voices... Continue reading
By Jack Clarke “I think belonging is really about participating, I suppose, having a stake in the place that you are in, right?” – Ali Al-Jamri on... Continue reading
By Paul Gander For all who fought for this country’s freedoms, and allwho continue to campaign peacefully for them Time won’t be kind to them, but silently... Continue reading
By Stefan Szczelkun It was a pragmatic thought. Could working-class artists be made more visible in the world through using published books? Could they slip onto the shelves... Continue reading