By Geoff Sawers Dorothy Edwards (1902-34) was a Welsh modernist writer of quiet, jewel-like short stories focussed on loneliness, often set among the rural middle classes; she... Continue reading
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by Ciarán O’Rourke More and more inhuman, every day.I feel just like an animal, squatting,squalid, in the corner, my chill-blained feetfoot-sore, among the rubbish and the dirt.There... Continue reading
Photo: Steve Phillips by Steve Pottinger Kneecap /ˈniːkap/ nounConvex bone in front ofknee joint; the patella.Articulates with femur. Kneecap /ˈniːkap/ nounIrish hip hop trio articulatingwithout fear, speaking... Continue reading
by Nick Moss How hard, it seems, is it to become convinced that the spirit of love, if it is to be genuinely beneficent – and therefore... Continue reading
To celebrate International Workers’ Day, Culture Matters is pleased to announce the publication of a new book of poems, The Last Days of Alicante, by Alan McGuire,... Continue reading
by Jenny Farrell 500 years ago, on the 15 May 1525, one of the final battles of the German Peasants’ War (1524–1525) broke out. The War was... Continue reading
Photo courtesy of the Morning Star by James O’Brien There’s always a different time to be born,It was just our chance to be born then.When the world... Continue reading
Wikimedia Commons image by Abigail Ottley You can open a window and fill your lungs with sweet, wholesome air; be at peace with the world as you... Continue reading
The rats of Birmingham love the hollowed-out places,They rumble in bin bags waiting to rupture,Spilling ordure over the backs of scabs outsourcing the deal.The rats abandoned the... Continue reading
Stephen King’s You Like It Darker As times grow more dire, with a major recession looming, war and perhaps nuclear war always on the horizon, and the... Continue reading
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