The anthology is a selection of poems submitted for the sixth Bread and Roses Poetry Award 2024. It includes the five winners of the Award and the poems cover a variety of themes relevant to working-class life, experience, history and culture. What unites them is an often playful, yet deeply considered engagement with language, and a fresh focus on the particularities of working-class life. Above all else, the poems are bound together by a generous expression of solidarity with the most vulnerable amongst us.
The Role of the Artist under Late Capitalism: the Bread and Roses Poetry Award Anthology 2024, ISBN: 9781912710722
This is a trilogy of republished books by 2023 T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poet Fran Lock, containing Muses and Bruises, Ruses and Fuses, and Raptures and Captures. With its new Introduction and refreshed introductions to all the books, it is an important retrospective collection by one of our most original poets, a rich, eloquent, dense and raging book that is vulnerable, fierce and wise.
Shooting to Kill, the second poetry collection by ex-con poet Nick Moss following the Koestler Award-winning poems of Swear Down (Smokestack Books, 2021), is a fine example of poetry as resistance. The book confronts state violence and terrorism in the UK, and in the Middle East, and gives vital voice to their victims. Poems depicting the gritty reality of domestic prison life are juxtaposed with devastatingly powerful poems of horrified document on the ongoing carnage in the carpet-bombed open prison that is the Gaza Strip (or what's left of it).
The more polemical poems are interspersed with excerpts from speeches and articles, the platitudes and icy rhetoric of politicians, that jostle for dominance of traumatic narrative. Shooting to Kill is political poetry at its most relevant, powerful and uncompromising.
Shooting to Kill, Poems by Nick Moss, ISBN9781912710713
In the summer of 2024, Culture Matters put out a call for poetry and artwork related to Donald Trump and Trumpism. Taking the title from WB Yeats’ ‘Second Coming’, the resulting anthology explores the havoc that a second term would unleash on the US and the wider world. With unjust policies, the demonisation of migrants and people of colour, and attacking anyone that tries to hold his feet to the fire, Trump and Trumpism are mistakes that the US cannot afford to make a second time round.
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