Commons Image By Violet White (Andy Burnham’s Register of Interests (c.£350,000) released 18th August 2026following his unelected ascent to Prime Minister in July, reveals remarkablecontinuity with Keir... Continue reading
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Striving for utopia in the ruins: Review of ‘Coal and Fire: Poems of Labour, Memory and Inheritance’
The book is available here By Nick Moss If part of the purpose of Culture Matters is to give voice to descriptions of the lived experience of... Continue reading
By Sally Richards Scorched Earth Fires rage:horizon a haze of dusty grassesawaiting their fate –flames lick, spit, chase, roar –demonic acrobatsengulf, consume;in their wake gothic bleakness. Green... Continue reading
By Roger Cornish They’d crammed through theTurnstiles by the thousandsHundreds of thousands seasonAfter season Made him a Millionaire He transferred from theHammersTo a Big Club up North... Continue reading
Ciarán O'Rourke reviews Rita Ann Higgins' Jiving with Wasps: New and Selected Poems. Continue reading
Workers by Peter Kennard By Owen Gallagher Workers are downing tools.They’re downing picks and shovels,hods and drills, leaving conveyor beltsand tills. They’re downing clipboardsand keyboards, scalpels, and... Continue reading
Image of U.S./Israeli strike on Iran by Anadolou Agency By Anne Enith Cooper Scroll, scroll, freeze. And I’m lookinginto the eyes of a boy cryingfor the the... Continue reading
The pyramid of power By Jim Aitken We were the slaves and then the serfs,we were the peasants, no better than the serfs.Later we were indentured slaves,... Continue reading
By Alan Morrison You threw out The Red Flag & JerusalemFor the Union Jack & God Save The King& a Party that didn’t stand for anything,You sold... Continue reading
Image by Karen Dietrich By Nick Moss In the June/July 2026 issue of The London Magazine, the editors asked a broadly selected group of poets of some... Continue reading
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