Fran Lock exposes the hypocrisy, classism and elitism in contemporary liberal attempts to edit, erode and police working-class participation in the arts, and she calls for the radical,... Continue reading
Mike Sanders explains how Ernest Jones’s poem expresses the kind of radical social transformation that the Labour Party is now offering. Addressing the Labour Party conference on... Continue reading
Kipling Buildings With some debt to Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If’ by Alan Morrison If you can keep your head when all about youAre spy cameras, a deliberate delayOf... Continue reading
It Suits a Narrative by Rita Ann Higgins It suits a narrative of the ‘big, bad stateand the ‘big bad religious congregations’,– Mary Higgins, CEO of Caranua... Continue reading
archy says hooray by Andy Croft boss i have heardsome human beans thinkhungry and homeless peopleare like cockroaches iam flattered at last some humans beans feelsorry for... Continue reading
Alan Dent introduces and reviews the recent collection of poems about work by Martin Hayes. From Chaucer to the present day, hardly any poetry in English is... Continue reading
Glass collector by Steve Pottinger Let us sing of the mouse-quiet collectorof glasses, clearer of plates, wiper of tables, he who returns sauce bottles to their allotted... Continue reading
They Trespass Against Us by Rita Ann Higgins The memo said,get them out of that bed,Make Lazarus out of the lot of them.By the head or the... Continue reading
The Match by Helen Burke Because ok lets face itLife is a match.You know it and I know it,And where you sit depends how it goes,And –... Continue reading