This the fourth book in a series of anthologies of radical poetry from contemporary Wales, protesting and grieving austerity at home and wars abroad. The poems point to the need for a sense of the common good, and solidarity and empathy, rather than neoliberal egoism and greed - we not me, us not I.
This the fourth book in a series of anthologies of radical poetry from contemporary Wales, protesting and grieving austerity at home and wars abroad. The poems point to the need for a sense of the common good, and solidarity and empathy, rather than neoliberal egoism and greed - we not me, us not I.
Young Roundhead Jared Amory relays the story of his childhood friend, Gideon Wade, who early in the English Revolution deserts the Royalist cause, which he had felt...
Young Roundhead Jared Amory relays the story of his childhood friend, Gideon Wade, who early in the English Revolution deserts the Royalist cause, which he had felt...
In this new collection of poems and images, Sam Kemp vividly memorialises the struggles at 'Fortress Wapping' in 1986, when 5000 print and clerical workers went on strike against Murdoch's News International.
In this new collection of poems and images, Sam Kemp vividly memorialises the struggles at 'Fortress Wapping' in 1986, when 5000 print and clerical workers went on strike against Murdoch's News International.
A flash e-anthology of poems in opposition to the Pathways to Work Green Paper, featuring poems by Ruby Bartlett, Brian Beamish, Rachel Burns, Jack Clarke, Alan Dent, Peter Devonald, Owen Gallagher, Declan Geraghty, Oz Hardwick, Bruce Harris, Tom Kelly, Fran Lock, Rupert Loydell, Steve Mann, Sarah Mayo, Christopher Moncrieff, Alan Morrison, Nick Moss, James O’Brien, Robert Punton, Peter Raynard, Sally Richards, Ness Sadri, A.P. Staunton, Steven Taylor, Peter Thompson, Nuala Watt and Wendy Young.
A free download of the book is available HERE.
Release the Sausages! is an anthology of poems, with absolutely no poems in it. It is a celebration of the first twelve months of Keir Starmer’s government - a monument to the towering contribution to socialist thought of Sir Keir Starmer KCB QC, and his decisive, principled and unifying part in the proud history of the British Labour Movement. And it is a moving tribute to his moral integrity and irresistible charisma, warmth and wit.
Release the Sausages! is £5 inc. p. and p. for a printed copy, with 20 blank pages for you to write your own poems in praise of Sir Keir.
Release the Sausages! is an anthology of poems, with absolutely no poems in it. It is a celebration of the first twelve months of Keir Starmer’s government - a monument to the towering contribution to socialist thought of Sir Keir Starmer KCB QC, and his decisive, principled and unifying part in the proud history of the British Labour Movement. And it is a moving tribute to his moral integrity and irresistible charisma, warmth and wit.
WaitingfortheLight by D. P. Dingham is a collection of short stories exploring the unex- pected moral and ethical uncertainties in almost every human endeavour. They follow the tradition of the cautionary tale. A photographer renowned for his images of war can only attempt landscape pictures after one assignment. He believes his obsession with capturing the aftermath of a massacre meant he left a baby to die. She was still alive when he took her picture but he did nothing to save her.
These stories were written very occasionally and published at various times over the last several years. The last, ‘Poetic Justice’, was the first to be written, in the days when we still sent letters and used landlines. It shouldn’t be taken too seriously. People who write in hope to little magazines will know what it is about, but would a successful young male poet really behave like that? Surely not.
Words United is a new book of poems, anecdotes and observations, a fleet of word-drones sent mostly to expose the brutal genocide, displacement and mass starvation visited upon the Palestinian people by the Israeli government and Israeli Defence Force, and the lies, hypocrisy and collusion of most British, US and European governments and politicians, and most of the Western media.
Words United by Michael Rosen, ebook, ISBN 978-1-912710-91-1, £5. All profits from books and ebooks sold will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestine.
Words United is a new book of poems, anecdotes and observations, a fleet of word-drones sent to expose the brutal genocide, displacement and mass starvation visited upon the Palestinian people by the Israeli government and the Israeli Defence Force, and the lies, hypocrisy and collusion of most British, US and European governments and politicians, and most of the Western media.
Words United by Michael Rosen, ISBN 978-1-912710-81-2, 120pps., £10 inc. p. and p. for UK addresses, £10 plus £5 p. and p. for worldwide addresses. Please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery - it is also available immediately as an ebook.
All profits from books and ebooks sold will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestine.
Waiting for the Light is a collection of short stories exploring the unexpected moral and ethical uncertainties in almost every human endeavour. They follow the tradition of the cautionary tale, covering themes of morality, horror and the limitless ambiguous ingenuity of humankind.
Waiting for the Light, by D. P. Dingham, ISBN 978-1-912710-66-9, £10 inc. p. and p. for UK addresses, £10 plus £5 p. and p. for worldwide addresses.
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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 invasion of Ukraine, the Platinum Jubilee, the JUST STOP OIL protests, the death of Elizabeth Windsor and the suppression of republican expression during the mourning period, and the Coronation.
In this collection of poems, Spain's troubled past mixes with the everyday routines, sights, sounds and tastes of Alan McGuire’s adopted homeland. Like any keenly observant Briton living in Spain, poet Alan McGuire can see the legacy of the country's civil war all around him.
In a series of imaginative, insightful poems, many of them beautifully illustrated with woodcut drawings by Ignacia Ruiz, Fran Lock explores the developing love between Mary Magdalene and Jesus, its relationship to Jesus’ liberating call for personal and political transformation, and the way it continues to challenge, comfort and inspire us with the ‘love that is stronger than death’.
In this collection of poems, Spain's troubled past mixes with the everyday routines, sights, sounds and tastes of Alan McGuire’s adopted homeland. Like any keenly observant Briton living in Spain, poet Alan McGuire can see the legacy of the country's civil war all around him.
In a series of imaginative, insightful poems, many of them beautifully illustrated with woodcut drawings by Ignacia Ruiz, Fran Lock explores the developing love between Mary Magdalene and Jesus, its relationship to Jesus' liberating call for personal and political transformation, and the way it continues to challenge, comfort and inspire us with the ‘love that is stronger than death’.
Love Is Stronger Than Death: Mary Magdalene and the Insurrection of Jesus, by Fran Lock, ISBN 978-1-912710-53-9, £10 inc. p. and p. for UK addresses, £10 plus £5 p. and p. for worldwide addresses.
An Anthology in Solidarity with the People of Palestine, ISBN 978191270782
Since the start of the genocidal war by Israel against the Palestinian people, poems have flooded in to Culture Matters. We have published many of them online, to show our solidarity with the Palestinians and the huge numbers of people in Britain and across the world who have marched in protest against the murderous nature and horrifically disproportionate scale of the Israeli offensive. We have marched to the now familiar chant from which this book gets part of its title.
Now that there is a glimmer of hope that peace, however fragile and precarious, is beginning to break out, we have put together another kind of march of solidarity: an anthology of poems from 70 poets. Some are already on the site, but most of them are new poems. They vary in tone, style and message, but are all great examples of successful political poems – skilful and eloquent expressions of protest, anger, sadness, compassion and a burning desire for justice and peace. As Michael Rosen says:
This is poetry in the face of horror. It's a poetry that investigates how it is we live in a world in which there is a shocking contrast: the normality of living here and the beyond-cruel normality of the mass killing in Gaza. While others have stayed silent, it's a poetry that is not afraid to speak.
The book is available as a pdf, We Are All Palestinians. It is free to download, but you are invited to make a donation of £5 via our Support page. A printed book can also be ordered for £12 inc. p. and p. for UK addresses, or £12 plus £4 p. and p. for EU and worldwide addresses. Please pay via the Support page and email us at books@culturematters.org.uk with your address details.
After production costs have been met, all money received will be given to the Medical Aid for Palestinians charity, to help build an effective, sustainable and locally led healthcare system for Palestinians.
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