Kevin Higgins lays into the Irish literary establishment, and praises The Children of the Nation: An Anthology of Working People’s Poetry from Contemporary Ireland, edited by Jenny Farrell... Continue reading
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A Mother Stamps Her Feet By Rafael Pizarro A mother in San Jose sees a child ina cage and stamps her feet. This is how it starts.... Continue reading
Turning Slavery Into Art by Fred Voss “This is slavery,”Armando on the old manual milling machine saysand smileshis ironic smileas all the shop machinists fire up their... Continue reading
Peephole by Owen Gallagher, with image by Jon Addison When a Conservative candidate callsRuth wears a blue rosette. When a Labour candidate knocksshe reaches for red. If... Continue reading
Knight of the Gutter (aka Iain Duncan Smith’s Got a Knighthood) by Alan Morrison The media smeared Jeremy Corbyn for good,Ensured a catastrophic election result,A thumping majority... Continue reading
The Buttering of the Bread by Rob Walton, with image by Martin Gollan Just because I changed to the Toriespeople tell me I don’t knowwhich side my... Continue reading
To A Different Country by Mike Jenkins We were selling ticketsfor a journey to a different country(our own, yet changed totally).At the station our flags flappedin a... Continue reading
Because There Is No Planet B by Sally Flint WE MARCH to the square, as if we might clear the atmosphere’s carbon overload by shouting: It’s not too... Continue reading
My blood by Sutputra Radheye poets are sleepingwith flowers in gardens across brothelswhen the rest of the city-crumbles like pieces of breadfalling in the fire of communalism.... Continue reading
A Very Northern Inheritance by Linda Burnett An agony of worker aunts passed martyrdom along the female line. Each rivulet of steam and sweat, reamed achingly from... Continue reading
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