Edited by Alistair Findlay, Morning Star, £12.50, available here By Andy Croft Poetry is in the news a lot these days. We have recently been subjected to celebrity... Continue reading
In cinemas late November/early 2026 By Rita Di Santo With a captivating poetic opening, director Marta Bergman chronicles the journey of a young couple, whose beginning is... Continue reading
By Christopher Norris for Tony Harrison, 1937-2025 In an unbroken continuity from the Renaissance to 1900 and beyond, a poem within the metrical tradition identifies itself .... Continue reading
The book is available here By Nick Moss This will be an all-too-brief introduction to a powerful new poetic voice, and to the Jawbone Collective. The latter... Continue reading
By Bernadette Gallagher ‘The death has occurred ofHenry Conyngham, The 8th Marquess Conyngham(Lord Henry Mount Charles)At Slane Castle, Slane, Meath‘ Confused about his Irishness, with one footin... Continue reading
By Nick Moss The absence of working-class voices from cultural life is something I have raised here and elsewhere repeatedly. There are, though, other questions which necessarily... Continue reading
The book is available here By Jenny Farrell Leila Majaj Kirkconnell’s Under the Same Sky is more than a novel; it is a monumental work of witness... Continue reading
The Free Gaza Circus By Rita Di Santo As Israeli airstrikes in Gaza continue, claiming lives and escalating tensions following the ceasefire—a recent strike on Nasser Hospital... Continue reading
DVD and Blu-Ray from BFI By Alan Price “Why can one never do a natural thing without screening it behind a structure of artifice?” That observation by... Continue reading