By Christopher Norris 1 In some ways you lot had it easy;No bolt-holes for the conscience-queasy,Though private motives might look sleazyTo later eyesAnd the tone sound a... Continue reading
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Review by Neil Fulwood, editor of the superb website Chainlink There is a technique in poetry, borrowed from Apophatic Theology, called the via negativa, whereby attention is drawn... Continue reading
by Alan Morrison The Chancellor sits puffy-eyed on the front benchAs the Prime Minister leans in to his nondescript scriptAt the despatch box amidst rambunctiousEighteenth century theatrics... Continue reading
By Nick Moss What a surprise to find that of all the front benchShitbreathed turncoat rabble, the one to refuseTo swallow the genocide apologias any longerWould be... Continue reading
The pyramid of power By Wayne Dean-Richards correct me if I’m wrongbut no police were prosecutedfor fitting up the Birmingham 6. correct me if I’m wrongbut the... Continue reading
Three Doves, by Bob Starrett by David Betteridge A poem taken from the author’s Sapling & Wood,published by Culture Matters, 2024. What, for the common good,can poets... Continue reading
Workers, by Peter Kennard by Owen Gallagher We doubled our shifts,filled our bellies with water,queued at food banks. The envelope came:URGENT! Bailiffs left ghostly imagesof our tvand... Continue reading
A poem commemorating the death of radical poet Percy Bysshe Shelley on 8th July 1822 ls’t not enough that splendour’s useless glare,Real grandeur’s bane, must mock the... Continue reading
By Violet White A Prayer on the Historic Occasion of the Proscription as Terrorists –by the LINO Government’s Home Secretary on Weds 2nd July 2025 –of a... Continue reading
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