Image courtesy of Newcastle University by Michael Rosen for Keir Starmer and his ‘Island of Strangers’ I lay in bedhardly able to breathebut there were people to... Continue reading
The Gleaners, by Jean-François Millet, 1857 By Declan Geraghty The pollengets into everything,inside my nosedown the back of my throatit gets like thatwhen you till the fields... Continue reading
El Sueño Existe 2025: 6th and 7th September, Machynlleth, Wales SY20 8ER www.elsuenoexiste.com for tickets (now on sale) and programme info 2005 saw the very first El... Continue reading
Stories on the ‘Wall Museum’ of the Sumud Story House in Bethlehem By Nick Moss The settlers come, spitting more bile about camel jockeys,Sand rats. They uproot the... Continue reading
By Chris Norris 1 Quite something, bold Sir Keir: an honour rare!Scarcely a year in office, and it’s youWho stand unchallenged as one of the twoMost hated... Continue reading
Image credit: Courtesy NOT Wieden+Kennedy By Pete Mullineaux In a parallel universe, not that different fromthis one, but with a few marked variations,at the Eurovision Song Contest,... Continue reading
By Geoff Sawers Dorothy Edwards (1902-34) was a Welsh modernist writer of quiet, jewel-like short stories focussed on loneliness, often set among the rural middle classes; she... Continue reading
by Ciarán O’Rourke More and more inhuman, every day.I feel just like an animal, squatting,squalid, in the corner, my chill-blained feetfoot-sore, among the rubbish and the dirt.There... Continue reading
Photo: Steve Phillips by Steve Pottinger Kneecap /ˈniːkap/ nounConvex bone in front ofknee joint; the patella.Articulates with femur. Kneecap /ˈniːkap/ nounIrish hip hop trio articulatingwithout fear, speaking... Continue reading
by Nick Moss How hard, it seems, is it to become convinced that the spirit of love, if it is to be genuinely beneficent – and therefore... Continue reading