by Alan Morrison Our souls in bondage to the shadow of the Baby Boom,Playground of gray-haired children, incubi in silvered bloom—Harangue them through a megaphone, protestor’s spittoon,Expect... Continue reading
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Palestine refugees enforced to flee Hamad quarter in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, after receiving an evacuation warning from Israeli army. Commons image. by Jim Aitken MacCaig... Continue reading
by Alan Morrison Starmer talks of an “island of strangers”(Adapting a trope from Enoch Powell)Of non-integrated immigrants & refugeesWho must all learn English & “earn the right”To... Continue reading
By Nick Moss In John Berger’s essay Uses of Photography (which collects Berger’s responses to Susan Sontag’s book On Photography), Berger sets out Sontag’s argument that “Cameras... Continue reading
Image courtesy of Newcastle University by Michael Rosen for Keir Starmer and his ‘Island of Strangers’ I lay in bedhardly able to breathebut there were people to... Continue reading
Image above from Wikimedia Commons By Amir Darwish, ‘Go home,’ a man shouted at me from across the street in Middlesbrough in 2004, just a year or... Continue reading
The Gleaners, by Jean-François Millet, 1857 By Declan Geraghty The pollengets into everything,inside my nosedown the back of my throatit gets like thatwhen you till the fields... Continue reading
Stories on the ‘Wall Museum’ of the Sumud Story House in Bethlehem By Nick Moss The settlers come, spitting more bile about camel jockeys,Sand rats. They uproot the... Continue reading
By Chris Norris 1 Quite something, bold Sir Keir: an honour rare!Scarcely a year in office, and it’s youWho stand unchallenged as one of the twoMost hated... Continue reading
Image credit: Courtesy NOT Wieden+Kennedy By Pete Mullineaux In a parallel universe, not that different fromthis one, but with a few marked variations,at the Eurovision Song Contest,... Continue reading
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