Fog by Rip Bulkeley We have to know. Brave journalistsboth risk and lose their lives for that.But information managersare too strong for them. They flood uswith lies... Continue reading
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Culture Matters publishes a lot of great poetry. Here’s Jenny Mitchell talking about why poetry matters; and the image above is from her recent award-winning book, Map... Continue reading
Writing a poem bursting into tears having misheard deforestation for defenestration by Lisa Kelly, in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Image above: Defenestrace, by Karel Svoboda... Continue reading
Fran Lock writes about the current economic and political crises, and introduces poetry that constructs a ‘socialist imaginary’, a space for hope and protest, against the distractions... Continue reading
Harri Webb and Merthyr Tydfil 2020 was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the poet Harri Webb, born on 7 September 1920 at Sketty, Swansea. He... Continue reading
Culture Matters is pleased to announce a special event in our digital reading series: the online launch of the free flash anthology A Fish Rots From The... Continue reading
Wern My Fault by Mike Jenkins There wuz this fuckin ard gangLed by this bloke Vlad(Arfta some ol rooler). Ee didn give a toss‘Bout trainers on wires,Ee... Continue reading
Children are shrinking before us by Owen Gallagher And when they cut budgets again, for families and schools,we on the opposition benches said: ‘Surelythey can’t cut them... Continue reading
“Weerth, the German proletariat’s first and most important poet, the son of Rhineland parents, was born in Detmold, where his father was church superintendent. In 1843, when... Continue reading
Gabriel Rosenstock presents a bilingual tanka, in Irish and English (5-7-5-7-7 syllables) in response to an artwork (above) by Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African-American artist to... Continue reading
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