by Owen Gallagher, with image by Martin Gollan He is a Caesar,a Nero, a global warning,a planet whose orbit collideswith everyone. He is the goldenage of narcissism... Continue reading
Da Scales by Jim Mainland, with image above by Peter Long Wha’s du faert for?Is du faert for someen? Weel, hoo come it’s no registerin?Is du laevin... Continue reading
The least I can do is use a capital C for Carer by Rob Walton My sister tells me/when mum was on the floor/having fallen/Carer A/and Carer... Continue reading
Who was Mary Magdalene? A repentant prostitute who ended her days as a desert contemplative? The secret wife of Jesus? An evangelist and prophet? An apostle, a... Continue reading
by Nick Moss 3 a.m and the Craven Park shottersare eatin wingsfrom the all night chicken shopan blazin up whilesomeone plays Davidoon their phone speaker. Everyone leanin... Continue reading
On the ‘Labour’ Government’s despicable Pathways to Work Green Paper announced on 18 March 2025 by Alan Morrison Labour will set you free, deny your disability,Neoliberalism is... Continue reading
Reporting on Four Boys by Jenny Mitchell A cigarette. A tea-light. A motherdown the shops. Two sets of twinsleft in a house, fire spreading fastover rubbish on... Continue reading
by Steven Taylor If the rich need riches to sustain themit stands to reason, the poor requirepoverty as inspiration. The Chancellor understands this instinctively. Shedoes not need... Continue reading
by Ciaran O’Rourkeafter Friedrich Engels, 1820-1895 A two-hundred-thousand mass – and what a mass!Bare women, ruddy men, with nothing left, completelyclad in rags: living proletarians,and more –... Continue reading
INTRODUCTION by Andy Croft Escape to Moribundia is the last in a trilogy of verse-novels written in Pushkin sonnets (the others being Ghost Writer and Nineteen Forty-eight).... Continue reading