Nick Moss reviews two new books from Smokestack: The Dogs, by Michael Stewart, and Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar by Alison Carr Michael Stewart’s The Dogs... Continue reading
My Liverpool home by Ruth Aylett Made by a funnel-shaped Mersey whose bottlenecked tides scouredthe sand that did for Chester;made by blood money lives of the enslaved,... Continue reading
Whippoorwills and Welding Rods by Fred Voss When I first started in a machine shopI didn’t even know how t use a file“Didn’t anyone teach you how... Continue reading
England and Son is a one-man play written specifically for the political comedian Mark Thomas by award-winning playwright Ed Edwards (The Political History of Smack and Crack). It’s a heartbreaking... Continue reading
Writer-director Brett Gregory on his bleak, moving, semi-autobiographical feature film, ‘Nobody Loves You and You Don’t Deserve to Exist’, which tackles austerity, class, and mental health. Images... Continue reading
Jericho by Pete Godfrey On a scraggy patch of land we stake our claim –this country’s ours, not terrain of the owners –and string up banners, raise... Continue reading
Fran Lock introduces her quarterly poetry column Amidst rolling news coverage of the Titan sub disaster, I scrapped the first draft of this quarter’s column, and began... Continue reading
Ben Lunn interviews Bangaisa Crew Since the middle of 2022, a collection of videos of a new hip-hop group who are militants in the Communist Party of... Continue reading