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Books (53)

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Yer Ower Voices
Wednesday, 08 November 2023 16:20

Yer Ower Voices

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Yer Ower Voices! is an anthology of dialect poetry in Welsh and English. The book is divided by geographical regional dialects: Swansea, The Valleys, Cardiff/ Newport, and North & West Wales. It is the first anthology of its kind ever published. The poets in Yer Ower Voices! show how dialect…
Dungheap Cockerel
Wednesday, 05 July 2023 07:19

Dungheap Cockerel

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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 by the ruling classes of late capitalist Britain. We aim to be a platform where the oppressed and exploited can develop and express…
Machine Language
Friday, 26 May 2023 12:29

Machine Language

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Machine / Language Martin Hayes has long been one of the most prolific and original poets of labour writing in this country. In Machine / Language he further details our descent into enmeshment with the apparatus of our oppression: an oppression that functions legally through the economic exercise of state…
Wolves Come Grovelling
Sunday, 07 May 2023 13:13

Wolves Come Grovelling

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Thirty poems in various forms and styles—rhyme, blank verse, free verse, villanelle, and ‘villanelle-vague’—tackle the seismic events and vicissitudes of recent years: Brexit, Grenfell and the “hostile environment”, the proroguing of Parliament, Boris Johnson’s shambolic premiership, Covid and the lockdowns, “Partygate”, Trump’s insurrection, the resistible rise of Keir Starmer, Russia’s…
The Shouting Tories
Wednesday, 16 November 2022 12:00

The Shouting Tories

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Every year for the past six years, Culture Matters has run the Bread and Roses Poetry Award. The competition is free to enter and is aimed at supporting and encouraging poetry with a broadly social and political content, written by and for working people. The Shouting Tories is an anthology…
Declarations of Love
Monday, 27 June 2022 09:10

Declarations of Love

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This collection of beautifully illustrated love poems ranges from protesting the inequities and cruelties of our fragmenting world to delight in the variety and beauty of creation, and from a fierce compassion for the 'cry of the poor' to tender recollections of family and friends. These poems evince a radical…
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