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
Wern My Fault by Mike Jenkins There wuz this fuckin ard gangLed by this bloke Vlad(Arfta some ol rooler). Ee didn give a toss‘Bout trainers on wires,Ee... Continue reading
A short story collection can, in certain respects, be seen as similar to a poetry collection. If the individual stories, like the individual poems, are well conceived... Continue reading
On a red carpet in February 2020, Grian Chatten, the front-man and vocalist for Fontaines D.C., was asked about the recent general election in Ireland, which had... Continue reading
Classical music does not really know how to deal with the working class – either as listeners or as artists working in it. My articles in the... Continue reading