Black Hair by Jenny Mitchell Entering the gallery, you’ll see it in a case, dark strands gathered close, size of a fist,taken from a Negroid head. Long-denigrated... Continue reading
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Eyeless by Ruth Aylett They bombed other people’s housesin Gaza, fish-in-a-barrelso we sold them some more bombs agreed that those others were terroristsso the world was probably... Continue reading
Worlds apart by John Short Sabadell, Catalonia In the streets and parksWest Africans drag hijacked shopping carts, collecting scrap to be conjured into cash. Trinket sellers press... Continue reading
Ukraine is a bilingual poem in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock, inspired by Nie Wieder Krieg (Never Again War) by Karl Wiener (see above, Public Domain... Continue reading
Culture Matters is proud to commemorate Black History Month 2023 and mark National Poetry Day with the first of four new poems by the award-winning writer Jenny... Continue reading
Peace for all those alive: peace for all lands and all waters. ************** In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda describes his... Continue reading
How and when the body collapses by Fran Lock / there’s a breach in the breath./ in that which surrounds and circulates./ in the warm gulf between... Continue reading
Academia by Jenny Mitchell, with above image by Chad McCail This is not a campus for the poor. The posh,in drab designer clothes, labels on the outside... Continue reading
I began writing this quarterly column looking for reasons to stay ‘hopeful’, whatever that means. I used to know. Or else, I thought I did: something like... Continue reading
Daffodils by Fran Lock and what of them? hardy stragglersbetween wastelands, waste laneswith the weather wetly trepanning the factories. by junctions of squathope, the stooping of resolute... Continue reading
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