President Donald Trump shaking hands with Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Commons image. By Violet White Behold, the wicked conceive harm,are pregnant with injustice,and give birth to lies.... Continue reading
By John Short Back in the pounding factoryI have to spend a night keepingvigil over unbaked dough: white shapes pass in squadronsI look for deformities;this is not... Continue reading
By Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi He walked — a whisper on the broken land,Twelve kilometres, barefoot in the sand.No shield but ribs, no cloak but skin and bone,A child... Continue reading
Greg Freeman reviews the launch of Release the Sausages! Bob Beagrie’s contribution to the launch is here I’ve come across some slim volumes of poetry in my... Continue reading
A contribution to the launch of Release the Sausages!: Poems for Keir Starmer at The Lit & Phil, Newcastle, 30th July 2025, by Bob Beagrie Andy Croft... Continue reading
Yazan el-Kafarna, left, with his brothers Wael, centre, and Mouin [Courtesy of the el-Kafarna family] Yazan’s mother counts his bones 4:30am South CarolinaThunderous rain floods, rattles, tanglesletters... Continue reading
Review by Sam Commotion Ghost Driver, the first novel from Nell Osborne, exists in a kind of extended feverish nightmare space. Parts of the novel can certainly... Continue reading
Displaced Palestinians gather to receive food from a charity in Deir el-Balah, Gaza Strip. CCA-4.0 By Naomi Foyle The world is on fire –the crowded spotsof the... Continue reading
By Abdulghani Al-Shuaibi Beneath a sky that weeps like wounded skin,Gaza sighs — a caged bird held within.Her streets are stitched with ash and stone,Her lullabies are... Continue reading
All images by Jack Clarke and Max Farrar ‘Cultural democracy isn’t just a buzzword. It’s a reckoning’ says Jack Clarke I’d barely been in the door five... Continue reading