By Arran Potts You can barely afford to live,go back to Old Kent Road. COMMUNITY CHESTYour empty houses have beengiven to the homeless;advance three spaces. You try... Continue reading
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Category: Poetry
By Roger Cornish Oh Israel, I’m withyou. Brought up on the World at War,read about the pogroms,my mam told me storiesof great Jews: Gloria Steinem,Albert Einstein,the story... Continue reading
By Janet Hatherley This is for you, Jason Arday,a black man, long dreads, working your way. Autistic, eleven years before you spoke.Until that day, you were listening,... Continue reading
The book is available here By Jim Aitken ‘Study, learn more, learn forever.’ – Lenin This collection is subtitled ‘Late Observations from a New Dark Age.’... Continue reading
Image from ‘Stand with Gaza’ Facebook page By Mike Jenkins With its two eyesIt fliesYellow sun strung –The boy tests the challengesOf the sea breeze –Overhead the... Continue reading
By Declan Geraghty Take your flagsand build tentsones that protect usfrom the rain,a nationunder one flag,the breeze gets inso we build walls with flags,we attach and sew... Continue reading
Commons Image By Violet White (Andy Burnham’s Register of Interests (c.£350,000) released 18th August 2026following his unelected ascent to Prime Minister in July, reveals remarkablecontinuity with Keir... Continue reading
Striving for utopia in the ruins: Review of ‘Coal and Fire: Poems of Labour, Memory and Inheritance’
The book is available here By Nick Moss If part of the purpose of Culture Matters is to give voice to descriptions of the lived experience of... Continue reading
By Sally Richards Scorched Earth Fires rage:horizon a haze of dusty grassesawaiting their fate –flames lick, spit, chase, roar –demonic acrobatsengulf, consume;in their wake gothic bleakness. Green... Continue reading
By Roger Cornish They’d crammed through theTurnstiles by the thousandsHundreds of thousands seasonAfter season Made him a Millionaire He transferred from theHammersTo a Big Club up North... Continue reading
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