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Don’t mention the word class! The theft of working-class culture

1 October 2018 / 351

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

Fran Lock

Poetry

our mother’s day will come

11 March 2018 / 267

our mother’s day will come by Fran Lock my mother’s face exists in the space between kaijū and sphinx. she’s wearing clothes that holdher body in contempt.... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Creativity unites us: poetry for International Women’s Day, 2018

7 March 2018 / 285

Fran Lock has curated this year’s compilation of poetry for Culture Matters, to mark International Women’s Day. There are poems by Jane Burn, Sogol Sur, Joanne Key,... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

universal credit

17 November 2017 / 366

universal credit by Fran Lock statues wake, and yawning, scrapethe birdshit from their tongues. londondrags a dirty nail across her fibroid lungs. the hoodies and the halfwits... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Muses and Bruises

11 October 2017 / 280

Culture Matters has published a brilliant new collection of poetry called Muses and Bruises by Fran Lock, an activist, writer and illustrator, and one of the finest... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

National Poetry Day: Vignettes of Working Class Exhaustion

27 September 2017 / 287

Vignettes of Working Class Exhaustion by Fran Lock Malkin Sacred, not wise, the black cat’s acidcasualty stare, traversing a crumblingcul-de-sac, under a starlessly inkjet sky.We cross each... Continue reading

Fran Lock

‘the bravest of the brave’

16 October 2016 / 271

‘the bravest of the brave’ by Fran Lock We will never again – in any future conflict – let those activist, left-wing human rights lawyers harangue and... Continue reading

Fran Lock

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Don’t mention the word class! The theft of working-class culture

our mother’s day will come

Creativity unites us: poetry for International Women’s Day, 2018

universal credit

Muses and Bruises

National Poetry Day: Vignettes of Working Class Exhaustion

‘the bravest of the brave’

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