Not Going Home – ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ * by Mark Cassidy It is not done, they said,to chain yourself to palace railings.Go breaking window glassor hatchet works... Continue reading
Blind Spot by Paul Francis She’s had to ditch that school job, which she loved;some supermarket shifts will pay the bills. She’s haunted by the story of... Continue reading
Almost incomprehensibly, radical poet, psychogeographer, poetry historian, activist, visionary and devout Blakean, Niall McDevitt, passed away on Thursday 29 September 2022 at just 55 years of age.... Continue reading
Borrowed Rainbows For Niall McDevitt (above), poet and republican22/02/1967 – 29/09/2022 The day Elizabeth Windsor passedA double rainbow was visibleArcing over Buckingham Palace—Supposedly a benevolent omenOf transformation,... Continue reading
Seán O’Casey’s best known and arguably most controversial plays are his early Dublin plays about Ireland’s revolutionary years between 1916 and 1923. Less known and performed are... Continue reading
Refugee Eftir Edwin Muir by Jim Mainland A’m fled trow laand, owre sea, smoored laand an sea, my hame a blüdied knock-soe, a rönnie o stanes, an... Continue reading
Igh Sheriff o Merthyr by Mike Jenkins Ee wuz off of is trolley,shoutin in-a middle o Penderyn Squarelike ee woz a Town Crier. Ee ad all the... Continue reading
‘Artists are the gatekeepers of truth’ said Paul Robeson. As a playwright I have to write this: Never mind the bollocks, “God Save the Queen” and all... Continue reading
Militant by John Short If he surrendered nowhow would he fill the void?Never the kind to retireround glittering pools,world injustice keeps himpermanently afloat. I chanced upon him... Continue reading