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
A beautiful blue sky, white picket fences,perfect red roses sway elegant in the breeze,a serene perfect suburban American dream,all is tea and serenity, all is still blue... Continue reading
by Nick Moss “…the poet’s function is to describe , not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen” – Aristotle, The... Continue reading
by Steve Pottinger, with image above by Martin Gollan my sisters, my friends. It is so easyto pick up the first stone and cast it.To declare proud... Continue reading
poem and image above by Lewis Wyn Davies It’s not only the goalsthat wet both eyes.Not only the numberof market towns, cathedral citiesand bashful hamlets between the... Continue reading