IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE! Plain and Simple by Bob Beagrie “The great who trod our fathers down,Who steal our children’s bread,Whose hands of greed are stretched... Continue reading
IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE! Endgame by Harry Gallagher In Westminster they’re bailing,having emptied out the larder,the pinstripe boys limp away,having somewhat cooled their ardour.Hard times are... Continue reading
As odd as it might sound – given the present state of the world – this article is all about joy. Before anyone starts to wonder who... Continue reading
Picnic in a Car by Mike Jenkins, with image above by Martin Gollan It’s winter,theyer avin a picnicin theyer car agen,im an erup Cyfarthfa Parkoverlookin-a lakeshaped like... Continue reading
Protest, Words! by Sunil Sharma Time words shed their obesitypassivitybaldness! These must become:weapons forged in fires. Lexical units, not disjointeddisconnectedbut with talons and clawsto tear the collective... Continue reading
A Culture That Fulfils by David Betteridge The compassion of the oppressed for the oppressedis indispensable… I beg you, take the spadeand not the knife. –... Continue reading
Sisyphus at Royal Mail by John Freeman I’ve never seen Bernard so indignant. It’s the day after the strike. There’s a backlog. I like my job, he... Continue reading
After Auden by Jenny Mitchell About suffering they were never wrong,the slave masters: how hard they whipped until the humans, trapped, were made to kneel; how it... Continue reading
Green Hauntings draws selections from four of Alan Morrison’s first six full volumes of poetry: The Mansion Gardens (2006), A Tapestry of Absent Sitters (2009), Blaze a Vanishing... Continue reading
Culture Matters is proud to introduce the first in their new series of digital poetry pamphlets, The Hanuting: Deleted Scenes by Kevin Patrick McCann. An unsettling poetic riff... Continue reading