Fred Voss, 8th July 1952 to 27th January 2025 Peter Raynard pays tribute to a great American poet The poet Fred Voss, who has died at the... Continue reading
Emancipating Ancestors by Jenny Mitchell I’ll free them allby digging deep enoughto haul their battered bodiesfrom the years of disturbed soil. As they emerge – some dark,... Continue reading
by James O’Brien The low loaders were busy,Around the time of ceasefire.Shifting carnage machines,To follow a map to your Hell.There’s a mad lady over there,Who has the... Continue reading
by Christopher Norris He had it coming, Thompson did,He had it coming soon,But it was that last buy-out bidBrought us to our High Noon. There’s loads of... Continue reading
Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-S69279 / CC-BY-SA 3.0 Chasm by S. J. Litherland 1940 / 1945 O children who did not sit in the shelter in your siren suit,a... Continue reading
Prisoners at Dachau concentration camp, CC PDM 1.0 She… Took photographs (guard towers) Made notes (barbed wire) But finally (gallows site) Just stood (medical block) Fading Into... Continue reading
CC licence 1.0 UPD by Allan Lake Reintroducing slavery was never going to bepopular with wage slaves. Leftovers exit stageright. The civil in civilisation went for a... Continue reading
Michael Longley, one of Ireland’s most esteemed poets, died at the age of 85, on 22 January 2025. He leaves behind a remarkable legacy spanning over half... Continue reading
£12.00 inc. p. and p. Since the start of the genocidal war by Israel against the Palestinian people, poems have flooded in to Culture Matters. We have... Continue reading
Death camp echoesas Sieg Heiltakes to the stage the war is back,our forefathers have risenfrom their marble memorials The cenotaphs are emptyas a new generation joins themto... Continue reading