Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin reviews Kenneth Branagh’s recent film Belfast For those not familiar with the vicissitudes of Northern Ireland, Kenneth Branagh’s 2021 film Belfast may not give one a full idea... Continue reading
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Jim Aitken reviews Hex, by Jenni Fagan, published by Birlinn There can be little doubt that part of the success of Jenni Fagan’s previous novel, Luckenbooth (2021),... Continue reading
Siege by Rip Bulkeley ‘Wars are fought to change the enemy’s mind’. – Liddell Hart The grandchildren of the mass killers of Dresden,Coventry, Tokyo, and Leningrad, leave... Continue reading
Culture Matters publishes a lot of great poetry. Here’s Jenny Mitchell talking about why poetry matters; and the image above is from her recent award-winning book, Map... Continue reading
Writing a poem bursting into tears having misheard deforestation for defenestration by Lisa Kelly, in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Image above: Defenestrace, by Karel Svoboda... Continue reading
Fran Lock writes about the current economic and political crises, and introduces poetry that constructs a ‘socialist imaginary’, a space for hope and protest, against the distractions... Continue reading
Harri Webb and Merthyr Tydfil 2020 was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the poet Harri Webb, born on 7 September 1920 at Sketty, Swansea. He... Continue reading
From August 5th to the 7th, Wales will reverberate to the unlikely sounds of Latin American music with a distinctly political twist as the El Sueño Existe festival... Continue reading
Rita di Santo interviews Alejandra Marquez Abella about her recent film Northern Skies Over Empty Space After directing an episode of Narcos for Netflix, and a future... Continue reading
Culture Matters is pleased to announce a special event in our digital reading series: the online launch of the free flash anthology A Fish Rots From The... Continue reading
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