Wikimedia Commons image by Abigail Ottley You can open a window and fill your lungs with sweet, wholesome air; be at peace with the world as you... Continue reading
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The rats of Birmingham love the hollowed-out places,They rumble in bin bags waiting to rupture,Spilling ordure over the backs of scabs outsourcing the deal.The rats abandoned the... Continue reading
by Kevin Patrick McCann Selected for chantingOn a demonstrationHe’s cuffed and bundledInto a police van,Unloaded at the stationThen it’s “Full name Grandad!” “Spell that!” “Identification!” The old... Continue reading
Waking at first light in the hopeof some miraculous resurrection of hope,an Easter miracle come early, I turn onmy phone, find that the people of Gaza– every... Continue reading
The Beatitudes, by Ignacia Ruiz by Nick Moss These are strange times. You can go to bed thinking Labour are still the party of a rank-rotten reformism... Continue reading
by Jim Aitken A headline in the Daily Telegraph on the 11th of April this year read, ’Migrants are handed life jackets by the French.’ This implied... Continue reading
by Owen Gallagher, with image by Martin Gollan He is a Caesar,a Nero, a global warning,a planet whose orbit collideswith everyone. He is the goldenage of narcissism... Continue reading
Da Scales by Jim Mainland, with image above by Peter Long Wha’s du faert for?Is du faert for someen? Weel, hoo come it’s no registerin?Is du laevin... Continue reading
The least I can do is use a capital C for Carer by Rob Walton My sister tells me/when mum was on the floor/having fallen/Carer A/and Carer... Continue reading
Who was Mary Magdalene? A repentant prostitute who ended her days as a desert contemplative? The secret wife of Jesus? An evangelist and prophet? An apostle, a... Continue reading
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