As we voyage through the uncharted waters of the post-Covid 2020s to the scourge of war again on the European continent, and in the Middle East, a... Continue reading
‘Workers’, by Peter Kennard “Class War, Not Culture Wars!” I’ve heard this phrase – or variations on the general theme – doing the rounds a lot lately.... Continue reading
Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde, by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Allen Lane, £12.99 by Henry Bell Gumb begins this lavishly published and lushly... Continue reading
Flensing whales at a whaling station, Akutan, Alaska, ca 1915 The dreaded rooms of surrendered disarticulation,The body, de-fleshed, deracinated now, eying the walls.Where the exhaled tobacco creates... Continue reading
The poet’s parents by Christopher Norris This is a poem about Emma Vetterlein, a Jewish East-End Londoner and dedicated Communist Party member and union activist whom I... Continue reading
Palestinians return to their homes in Gaza, Jan 2025: from The Palestine Chronicle These are a people who,denied earthly resources,have already – for time,times and a half-time... Continue reading
Sunday 16 February, 5pm, The Cockpit, Gateforth St., London NW8 8EH An evening of radical poetry, headlined by the extraordinary and original Fran Lock (2023 T. S.... Continue reading
Melt by Steven Taylor The day that Trump announced the USwas taking over Gaza and going to developthe seafront (in particular) as prime real estate after removing... Continue reading
Alexander Polzin’s Hommage a Paul Celan, Jardin Anne Frank, Paris Edward Mackinnon writes about Paul Celan, and his poem Shibboleth Shibboleth Together with my stones,heavy with weepingbehind... Continue reading