By Paul Laughlin This is a political poem. This poem is political. This poem will be collected. This poem has been neglected. This poem is read in... Continue reading
Tasty food sculpture! Hamstarmer by Martin Rowson By Merryn Williams Stand down with dignity, Sir Keith!Don’t let the pain drag on.I’m sure you’ll feel intense reliefonce you... Continue reading
Gliff, by Ali Smith, Hamish Hamilton, 288pp, £18.99, is available here By Jenny Farrell The dystopian fiction of imperialism, which began with Jack London’s Iron Heel, has... Continue reading
By Alli Gray Embryonic hate speech wrappedFascist thought in satire’s seedThat poisoned carrier of foul beliefsMalignant spores, polluted memesExtending dark organic reach Create memetic chain reactionProvokeArouse through... Continue reading
by Ross Wilson DOG EAT DOG ‘the populist right in the UKlook like puppies comparedto the far right across Europe.’ So a writer wrote the dayI read... Continue reading
By Pauline Howley Everyone talks about stuff they didin English Literature at schoollike all schools did English Literature. Everyone talks about the great school tripsthey hadlike everyone... Continue reading
Commons image of Belfast riots When you forget where your forefathers came from. How they arrived into a country. What they did to the people of that... Continue reading
By Philippa Greasley No vote, no questions asked, no choicenow we mustsing the Lord’s Prayer at the startand chant the National Anthem at the end“well, why should... Continue reading
A destroyed mosque in the Jabalia area, Gaza Strip, Palestine By Christopher Norris (After Geoffrey Hill, ‘Ovid in the Third Reich’) I love my nation, hate its... Continue reading
Annemasse, France, 18/08/1944: a group of children who survived thanks to Marianne Cohn and Myla Racine By S. J. Litherland For Ray and Alec Waterman Open the... Continue reading