By Nick Moss The absence of working-class voices from cultural life is something I have raised here and elsewhere repeatedly. There are, though, other questions which necessarily... Continue reading
Book cover artwork is by Martyna Sabadasz By Jonathan Wonham These five poems are extracts from the above book Diary of a Spice Seller by Mohammed Yasser... Continue reading
Ruins of Beit Lahia, in the Gaza Strip, destroyed by Israeli bombardments By Rod Whitworth I can’t find the code to unlock thisslippery image of hot dust,to... Continue reading
St. George’s flags: commons image By S. J. Litherland In the pit villages where abandoned corridorsrun underground, where there is nothing to seeon Front Street except empty... Continue reading
The book is available here By Father Geoff Bottoms If the traditional portrayal of Mary Magdalene, as handed down in a patriarchal Church, is that of a... Continue reading
By Merryn Williams The crime did not go unrecorded.The phone link worked, her voice was heard.She found the fame she never wanted;her picture rockets round the world.... Continue reading
By Steve Pottinger Leading by example, Shabanais there, on Dover beach. Waiting. Making sure the cameragets her good side, hair glinting in the morning light. Lookingresolute in... Continue reading
Culture Matters is seeking poems for a new anthology to mark the 100th anniversary of the 1926 General Strike. We want to celebrate and memorialise the voices... Continue reading
By Paul Gander For all who fought for this country’s freedoms, and allwho continue to campaign peacefully for them Time won’t be kind to them, but silently... Continue reading
By Kevin Patrick McCann Told me how, as a schoolboyBack in 1933, he saw BrownshirtsThreatening his music teacher,Heard him shout defiantly, “To HellWith you and Adolf!” only... Continue reading