Self-portrait with Hand on Brow – Kathe Kollwitz by James O’Brien Even after all, the span was only yesterday,That yesterday of horrors, where everyone slipped away.I felt... Continue reading
by Janet Hatherleyafter Henry Reed Today we have naming of seas. Yesterdaywe had the Gulf of Mexico. And tomorrow morningwe shall have what to do after firing.... Continue reading
by Fran Lock content warning: working-class girlhood.…and so, into every little life, the washed animal emerges. a girl. something wet and receptive, lowered through form. out of... Continue reading
by Martin Hayes, with image above by Martin Gollan we come home on a Friday nightafter another dirty week in their officesopen a bottle of wineand begin…... Continue reading
The ‘Labour’ Government’s Green Paper Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working amounts to a cranking up of more Tory-style persecution of the... Continue reading
Photos by M. Quille of public exhibition on 4th floor of Senate House, University of London by Jenny Mitchell A suitcase snaps with joy,falls open at my... Continue reading
by Benito Vila Darwin’s no optimist.He sees every species tossedto specific failure, each one destinedto vanish, by way of its imperfections,true to every past, to every future.... Continue reading
by Kevin Patrick McCann Raise a flag, found a countryOn someone else’s land,Wait a while, then expand:Pick a village, attack at dawn,Spare no-one, make no secretOf what... Continue reading
Bitterly, I was forced to be absent from the Cockpit Theatre swansong event for Smokestack Books last December due to a combination of ill health, stormy weather... Continue reading
Orgreave after Guernica, by Bob Olley I wouldn’t go back I should have but I couldn’t.It wasn’t an end but a beginning.At Nantgarw the black Taff swelled... Continue reading