Jericho by Pete Godfrey On a scraggy patch of land we stake our claim –this country’s ours, not terrain of the owners –and string up banners, raise... Continue reading
Fran Lock introduces her quarterly poetry column Amidst rolling news coverage of the Titan sub disaster, I scrapped the first draft of this quarter’s column, and began... Continue reading
Jim Aitken reviews Welcome to Britain: An Anthology of Poems and Short Fiction, edited by Ambrose Musiyiwa and published by CivicLeicester In 2019 CivicLeicester published Bollocks to Brexit: An... Continue reading
The mission of Culture Matters is to promote cultural democracy. This means providing articles and works of art for people whose views and voices go largely ignored... Continue reading
‘We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance... Continue reading
Type K individuals by Liz McPherson No women in the Long Roomnever mind the board room,no place for black skin or brown skin –you have to be... Continue reading
Sunken Levels by Jim Aitken It was the first item on the newsfor days, the Titan submersibletaking a group to see the Titanic wreck. The loss of... Continue reading
Social Mobility by Patrick Druggan March is a borderline monththat tells you that the world has always been this way, it will never change. The world is... Continue reading
Nick Moss reviews two new books from Smokestack Books: The Selected Poems of Clive Branson, edited by Richard Knott, and The Collected Poems of Montagu Slater, edited by... Continue reading