Respite by Wayne Dean-Richards I watch an episode of the original Star Trek TV series, followed immediately by an episode ofWhatever Happened to the Likely Lads? followed... Continue reading
Nick Moss reviews two new books from Smokestack: The Dogs, by Michael Stewart, and Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar by Alison Carr Michael Stewart’s The Dogs... Continue reading
My Liverpool home by Ruth Aylett Made by a funnel-shaped Mersey whose bottlenecked tides scouredthe sand that did for Chester;made by blood money lives of the enslaved,... Continue reading
Whippoorwills and Welding Rods by Fred Voss When I first started in a machine shopI didn’t even know how t use a file“Didn’t anyone teach you how... Continue reading
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