Image above from Wikimedia Commons By Amir Darwish, ‘Go home,’ a man shouted at me from across the street in Middlesbrough in 2004, just a year or... Continue reading
The Gleaners, by Jean-François Millet, 1857 By Declan Geraghty The pollengets into everything,inside my nosedown the back of my throatit gets like thatwhen you till the fields... Continue reading
Stories on the ‘Wall Museum’ of the Sumud Story House in Bethlehem By Nick Moss The settlers come, spitting more bile about camel jockeys,Sand rats. They uproot the... Continue reading
By Chris Norris 1 Quite something, bold Sir Keir: an honour rare!Scarcely a year in office, and it’s youWho stand unchallenged as one of the twoMost hated... Continue reading
Image credit: Courtesy NOT Wieden+Kennedy By Pete Mullineaux In a parallel universe, not that different fromthis one, but with a few marked variations,at the Eurovision Song Contest,... Continue reading
by Ciarán O’Rourke More and more inhuman, every day.I feel just like an animal, squatting,squalid, in the corner, my chill-blained feetfoot-sore, among the rubbish and the dirt.There... Continue reading
Photo: Steve Phillips by Steve Pottinger Kneecap /ˈniːkap/ nounConvex bone in front ofknee joint; the patella.Articulates with femur. Kneecap /ˈniːkap/ nounIrish hip hop trio articulatingwithout fear, speaking... Continue reading
by Nick Moss How hard, it seems, is it to become convinced that the spirit of love, if it is to be genuinely beneficent – and therefore... Continue reading
To celebrate International Workers’ Day, Culture Matters is pleased to announce the publication of a new book of poems, The Last Days of Alicante, by Alan McGuire,... Continue reading
Photo courtesy of the Morning Star by James O’Brien There’s always a different time to be born,It was just our chance to be born then.When the world... Continue reading