In the title essay from her book Civil Wars (1985) June Jordan writes that ‘In the context of tragedy all polite behaviour is a form of self-denial.’... Continue reading
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TO MARKET, TO MARKET TO BUY A FAT PIG after Marie Howe by Abigail Ottley The people Jesus loves are shopping today between the top of Causeway... Continue reading
in memory of Eric Levy Assange is free – and how you worked for that, fragile as spindrift, drumming up a storm wrapped in your keffiyeh, that... Continue reading
by Steve Pottinger to any one of us. It’s a grey morning, calm. December. We are in town killing time, maybe meeting friends, something other than our... Continue reading
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by michal lowkain when you eatand when you sleepwhen you walkand when you do your shoppingwhen you dance in the morningand when you cry laterwhen you can’t... Continue reading
by Jennifer Johnson When the Council owns the building you live inyou may find that the front is detaching itself from the back,the underpinning needed too expensive... Continue reading
by Anne Irwin The world comes tumbling down When sense is toppled from its crown By tic-toc gasúns who give lip To the common citizenship, Their insecurities... Continue reading
After the spiritual, Mary had a baby By Janet Hatherley Set out from Nazareth, can’t get through Ninety miles to Bethlehem At Jalamah checkpoint Flanked by a... Continue reading
By Jim Aitken, with image by Martin Gollan All faces tell stories but his mean, cultivated look Is designed to suggest to all his supporters that he... Continue reading
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