By James O’Brien Take my hand then Hiba,To the Fields of Athenry,We’ll go then to the blackthorn,The hawthorn copse,Lay awhile, try and breathe,Try to survey heaven or... Continue reading
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By Ella B. Winters Dear neighbour,You whitewashed the streetand smeared it with a bloodycross. Your celebration buntingturned a noose, squeezingthe breathout of me.I am not scared to... Continue reading
Image by Tim Pierce By Jim Aitken They come from across Africaand from the Middle Eastand from further East,masses on the move from landsonce colonised or still... Continue reading
England flags, Bermondsey. Commons image. By Pauline Sewards Here they come: the haters swarming up lamppostswearing big boy balaclavas and black hoodiesbouncing on the balls of their... Continue reading
Mural of Marwan Barghouti By Nick Moss Here [in this city] dwells Eunomia (Good Governance) and that unsullied fountain Dice (Justice), her sister, sure support of cities;... Continue reading
By Jim Aitken Of that great quartet of ancient Chinese thinkers – Lao Tzu (604 – 517 BC), Confucius (551 – 479 BC), Mencius (372 – 289... Continue reading
CCA 3.0 By Alan Price We ask you to walk forward, then immediately backward.North. West. Today South. The compass of death is erratic.Be allotted a place on... Continue reading
By Anne Irwin When earth cries outas old men’s bitter heartshang like yellow leaves on their twisted politic,the orange enables genocideto receive The Nobel prize for peace,another... Continue reading
By Omar SabbaghOn Reading Tariq Ali’s Memoirs History can be as small as the tiny creviceof what might have been,the entry that comes last on a list... Continue reading
Image by Martin Gollan By Uzmah Ali After Manic Street Preachers S.Y.M.M. and Revol Run a finger along smooth sheetsCup on bedside tableSplay into a starfishStare at... Continue reading
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