by James O'Brien The percussion on your teeth, A drum roll, precision revolver, Rattling around an abyss dissonance. A voided revulsion of mouth, A choke spasm... Continue reading
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by Mike Jenkins, with photo above by William Murphy I imagine you shaking your head At the stations and pub in your name In a... Continue reading
by Kevin McCann As Michelangelo’s collecting marble From the local quarry And his lads load up the cart He spots a cracked green chunk Propping open an... Continue reading
by Steve Pottinger, with image above by Fran Lock only that each tank will beat itself into a thousand ploughshares and snipers, dead-eyed, precise... Continue reading
Photo: Marcus and his brother Jahziah by Nick Moss History repeats, ploughs on unceasing, Another dying man, another father, Brother, friend shot dead . Cold, Christmas-crisp air... Continue reading
by Sam Friedman, illustrated with commons images Love at the Workplace My stomach knots with hatred of bosses’ sneers; my tears transmute to spittle in defiance, eyes... Continue reading
by Fran Lock, with commons image above / wait for it./ spring to come, reconstitute the stubborn world./ our bodies, tailored to containment./ fault-line forcing an afternoon./... Continue reading
by Fred Voss, with image above by Ehsan Ganji The machinist on the machine in the corner of the machine shop does not talk in love with... Continue reading
Hamish Henderson (1919-2002) was a Scottish poet, songwriter, communist and public intellectual. He studied Gramsci’s ideas on culture in the mid-1940s whilst a soldier in Italy, and... Continue reading
In her latest, fourth novel, Intermezzo, Sally Rooney continues her exploration of intimate relationships, albeit with a shift away from the clear political critique that characterised her... Continue reading
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