Our Publications

Our Publications (30)

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Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:42

Onward / Ymlaen!

Written by Mike Quille

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Onward / Ymlaen! An anthology of radical poetry from contemporary Wales 170 pps., edited by Mike Jenkins, with a Foreword from Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of PCS, and with images by Gustavius Payne ISBN: 978-1-912710-16-4 This new and unique anthology has poetry in both Welsh and English by around 70…

Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:31

Witches, Warriors, Workers

Written by Fran Lock and Jane Burn

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Witches, Warriors, Workers: An anthology of contemporary working women’s poetry, 192pps., £9 plus £3 p. and p. ISBN: 978-1-912710-19-5 This new anthology focuses on themes which reflect the texture and preoccupations of working women in contemporary Britain. There are 65 contributors of all ages, working across a variety of poetic…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Saturday, 09 November 2019 14:15

The Children of the Nation: An Anthology of Working People’s Poetry from Contemporary Ireland

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Written by Mike Quille

The Children of the Nation: 203pps., £9 plus £3 p. and p. or €10 plus €5 p. and p. ISBN: 978-1-912710-25-6 This is a unique anthology of poetry in both Irish and English by Irish working-class writers from the thirty-two counties of Ireland. There are sixty-seven contributors, women and men,…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 01 November 2019 11:11

arise! filmpoem

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Written by Mike Quille

Culture Matters has produced a short film, made by Carl Joyce, of the poem arise! by Paul Summers, sponsored by the Durham Miners' Association. You can watch the film for free on Vimeo here or on Youtube here. The film invokes the collective and co-operative spirit of past generations of…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Thursday, 31 October 2019 08:58

The Folded Lie

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Written by Mike Quille

£7 plus £3 p.and p. ISBN: 978-1-912710-24-9 In September 1939, W. H. Auden wrote these words: All I have is a voiceTo undo the folded lie 80 years later, another politically conscious and technically skilful poet rises to the challenge of ‘unfolding the lie’, as Christopher Norris’s eloquent and combative…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 02 October 2019 11:11

Release a Rage of Red

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Written by Mike Quille

£5 plus £3.00 p. and p. ISBN: 978-1-912710-21-8 Release a Rage of Red is a selection of entries to the Bread & Roses Poetry Award 2019, sponsored by Unite. Every year it becomes more of a challenge to judge these poems. This year, there was a large number of beautifully…

Wednesday, 25 September 2019 10:22

Raptures and Captures

Written by Mike Quille

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£7 plus £3.00 p. and p. ISBN: 978-1-912710-18-8 Raptures and Captures follows on from Muses and Bruises and Ruses and Fuses, both published by Culture Matters. It is inspired by liberation theology and a fascination with the continuing relevance of the lives of the saints to a radical, liberating politics.…

Monday, 05 August 2019 11:33

Robots Have No Bones

Written by Mike Quille

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£10 (plus £1.50 p. and p.) ISBN: 978-1-912710-14-0 Robots Have No Bones is Fred Voss’s follow-up collection to The Earth and the Stars in the Palm of Your Hand, also published by Culture Matters. Robots in the workplace – computerized metalworking machinery – mean a loss of the tactile impact…

Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:26

The Trouble with Monsters

Written by Mike Quille

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£8 (plus £1.50 p. and p.) ISBN: 978-1-912710-12-6 Christopher Norris’s new collection of political poems take aim at some monsters of our present bad times, among them Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Theresa May, George Osborne, Benjamin Netanyahu, and assorted hangers-on. These politicians act as if they have said…

Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:21

From Aberfan t Grenfell

Written by Mike Quille

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£9 (plus £1.50 p. and p.) ISBN: 978-1-912710-08-9 From Aberfan t Grenfell shows that Mike Jenkins’s sublime skills in dialect poetry continue to shine as brightly as ever, as he evokes a bravura array of voices from his Merthyr bro. Using his work to give speech to people without power,…