Run on the food bank by Mick O’Sullivan Unwanted crumbs are swept here, for today’s bumper giveaway. Proud feathers ruffle ‘midst flap and kerfuffle.Heads turn sharp, nervously... Continue reading
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Jenny Farrell introduces the famous anti-war book, as we near the 50th anniversary of Erich Maria Remarque’s death. Image by Photofest World War I was termed the war that... Continue reading
Moonshot haiku by Laura Taylor Moonshot ambition; bukkake for the nation. Pass the flannel, please. Impressions of a Curate’s Egg by Laura Taylor It was the best... Continue reading
She Died Alone by Mike Jenkins She died there in hospital,no husband, Sissy, daughter Ingridno church kin around herand at her funeral of regulation 10her own Lusamba... Continue reading
As increasingly militarised police forces and emboldened white supremacists provoke and attack people of colour and their allies, Ciarán O’Rourke shows the relevance of Langston Hughes’ political... Continue reading
Karl Parkinson presents The People Died, published in his recent collection Sacred Symphony (Culture Matters) The poem has been made into a video by poet and videographer Dave... Continue reading
Michael Jarvie introduces a new section of our website, on Life Writing My collection of working-class life writing, Into the Silence, has a Dewey Decimal Classification of... Continue reading
Fran Lock reviews Charlie Hill’s new memoir Charlie Hill’s memoir, I Don’t Want to Go to the Taj Mahal, is told in a series of linked poetic... Continue reading
Stuart Cartland criticises the jingoistic response to the BBC’s decisions about Rule Britannia. If as a nation we are to be serious about addressing racism and legacies of... Continue reading
John Green reviews Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of historical novels. The above image is Hans Holbein’s 1530s portrait of Thomas Cromwell Hilary Mantel’s trilogy on the life of... Continue reading
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