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We are very pleased to announce that thanks to support from Unison (Newcastle City Centre branch), and Newcastle Trades Union Council, the eighth Bread and Roses Poetry... Continue reading

Below is a fine new poem by Jane Burn. But first, an advert! Not for the purposes of making a profit, but in order to promote cultural... Continue reading

The Workers Consider the Strike as Serota Observes the Richter by James O’Brien The undertaker appeared rooted, transfixed as a glare,As rigid as a fire poker in... Continue reading

Shared Anger by Alan McCormick ice through their veins,a slab holding form,despite the friction,the heat from outside, ruling with fists,starving with favours,silencing the herd,who die to speak,... Continue reading

Culture Matters intends to publish a new and original anthology of radical Welsh poetry. It will be edited by Mike Jenkins, founder member of the Red Poets collective... Continue reading

Culture Matters was back at Centrala in Digbeth on the 9th February 2024, to celebrate the launch of Al Hutchins’ stonking cerebral masterwork, Rebel Admin (Culture Matters,... Continue reading

Miss Una Marson Speaks by Jenny Mitchell Call me glutton as I gorged on every English word – a book-mad child in Santa Cruz, Jamaica – my... Continue reading

This poem is about The Winding House museum in New Tredegar in the Valleys (see above), built on the site of the Elliot colliery. It is due... Continue reading

Here are a couple of poems from a new collection by Martin Hayes for Smokestack Books, called Machine Poems.  the definition of a machine something that is made... Continue reading