Words United is a new book of poems, anecdotes and observations, a fleet of word-drones sent to expose the brutal genocide, displacement and mass starvation visited upon... Continue reading
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by Jim Aitken For Ward Jalal Al- Shaikh Khalil The whole world saw her silhouettedancing through the flames of a school.There was something ethereal,some strange scene from... Continue reading
by Marilyn Francis My father would have been ten years old in 1933the year Mr Edgar Lewis JP arrivedin his Morris Oxford bullnoseto read the Riot Act.... Continue reading
By Stefan Szczelkun Fran Lock doesn’t hold back when forging her poetry. Here she is spurred on by her vision of Mary Magdalene as a revolutionary. A... Continue reading
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
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
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