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
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
by David Betteridge – Image and motto text by WILLIAM BLAKEfrom The Book of Urizen & The Grey Monk Dialogue:State Powers versus Citizens State Powers: We will... Continue reading
CCA image by Nick Moss Essential work devoted to the carting away of the non-essential.Clearing up the surplus, the food scraps, the bottles and tins of sugar-free... Continue reading
Reel Knewz and the Bin Men of Birmingham: A Garbage State of Affairs First, a poem by James O’Brien….. Bin Juice Bin juice is the toxic residue... Continue reading
Release the Sausages! is an anthology of poems, with absolutely no poems in it. It is a celebration of the first twelve months of Starmer’s government –... Continue reading