The Dark Ages by Dennis Broe is a noir murder mystery. It’s about a time when people with money influenced people with political power to restructure the United... Continue reading
Bitterly, I was forced to be absent from the Cockpit Theatre swansong event for Smokestack Books last December due to a combination of ill health, stormy weather... Continue reading
Folks, listen up! We’ve got a great deal here – this is the mega deal of the century folks, a fantastic deal we’ve worked on, tremendous. We’re... Continue reading
Orgreave after Guernica, by Bob Olley I wouldn’t go back I should have but I couldn’t.It wasn’t an end but a beginning.At Nantgarw the black Taff swelled... Continue reading
but we never really liked warit killed our Dads’ Dads’ Dadsthat left our sons’ sons’ sonsto become ‘professional’ atkilling whilst learning howto clean a gun & boots.... Continue reading
A thug entity, paralysed in starch graves,Peace will come as you wound the land,The price of an un-healing vanity.Those fissures after extraction voided,Take us to that hole,... Continue reading
by Alan McCormick I wrote this story during Trump’s first Presidency when things were getting dark and lurching towards a kind of civil war. I originally called... Continue reading
By Peter Raynard If working class was a currency in poetry, it wouldn’t be worth very much. For the past few years there has been a slow... Continue reading
Demonstration against the invasion of Iraq: courtesy Andrew Wiard Jon Baldwin reviews an exhibition of photography at Turner Contemporary, Margate, until 1st June 2025 Resistance is conceived... Continue reading