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
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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
but we never really liked warit killed our Dads’ Dads’ Dadsthat left our sons’ sons’ sonsto become ‘professional’ atkilling whilst learning howto clean a gun & boots.... Continue reading
A thug entity, paralysed in starch graves,Peace will come as you wound the land,The price of an un-healing vanity.Those fissures after extraction voided,Take us to that hole,... Continue reading
By Peter Raynard If working class was a currency in poetry, it wouldn’t be worth very much. For the past few years there has been a slow... Continue reading
by Nick Moss Scout Szofiya Bolton wrote the poems collected here as reflections on the experience of serving a prison sentence, further to attempting to hold up... Continue reading
Produced and presented by The Cockpit Live literature every third Sunday at 5.00pm. The world changes: we make new poetry to vandalise literary forms or retrieve those... Continue reading
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