Here is a link to the launch of Release the Sausages! Poems for Keir Starmer and panel discussion at the Lit & Phil in Newcastle, on Wednesday 30 July... Continue reading
by Steve Pottinger, with image above by Martin Gollan It’s a universal truth that we should have low expectationsof those who climb the greasy pole to lead... Continue reading
Culture Matters is proud to present an online double-header featuring the poetic stylings of CM stalwarts Fran Lock and Alan McGuire. Fran will read from Love is... Continue reading
Adam Curtis, Shifty, 2025, film still. Courtesy: the artist and BBC Dennis Broe reviews the latest offering from Adam Curtis The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze said editing is... Continue reading
Review by Jenny Farrell When Banu Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp became the first Kannada work – and the first short story collection – to win the 2025 International... Continue reading
A review by Jenny Farrell Michael Crummey’s The Adversary has won the 2025 Dublin Literary Award, a prestigious prize nominated by libraries and readers worldwide for the... Continue reading
by Anne Irwin We were told a new world arosefrom the ashes of the second world warits collective narrative-Peace at all costsRespect for borders,We believedAll citizens are... Continue reading
Effigy of Keir Starmer at a protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza, by Alisdare Hickson, CCA 2.0 by Bob Beagrie It comes like a spate in the river,inexorable and... Continue reading
We’ve just published this anthology in praise of Sir Keir Starmer KC, containing no poems at all. One of the non-contributors, Simon Haines, has just sent us... Continue reading