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It Suits a Narrative

8 August 2018 / 332

It Suits a Narrative by Rita Ann Higgins It suits a narrative of the ‘big, bad stateand the ‘big bad religious congregations’,– Mary Higgins, CEO of Caranua... Continue reading

Rita Ann Higgins

Poetry

Two poems by Andy Croft

8 August 2018 / 352

archy says hooray by Andy Croft boss i have heardsome human beans thinkhungry and homeless peopleare like cockroaches iam flattered at last some humans beans feelsorry for... Continue reading

Andy Croft

Poetry

The Things Our Hands Once Stood For: Introduction and Review

3 August 2018 / 354

Alan Dent introduces and reviews the recent collection of poems about work by Martin Hayes. From Chaucer to the present day, hardly any poetry in English is... Continue reading

Alan Dent

Poetry

The Glass Collector

3 August 2018 / 321

Glass collector by Steve Pottinger Let us sing of the mouse-quiet collectorof glasses, clearer of plates, wiper of tables, he who returns sauce bottles to their allotted... Continue reading

Steve Pottinger

Poetry

They Trespass Against Us

31 July 2018 / 315

They Trespass Against Us by Rita Ann Higgins The memo said,get them out of that bed,Make Lazarus out of the lot of them.By the head or the... Continue reading

Rita Ann Higgins

Cultural Commentary

Culture for the many, not the few: notes towards a socialist culture policy

28 July 2018 / 439

Chris Guiton and Mike Quille present an analysis of what culture means, and what a democratic and socialist approach to culture policy might look like. Introduction The mission... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Visual Arts

The Pity of War

23 July 2018 / 367

David Betteridge visits an arts hub in Clydebank, where he views and reviews a beautiful and disturbing mosaic by Owen McGuigan. “My subject is War, and the... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Poetry

The Match

5 July 2018 / 327

The Match by Helen Burke Because ok lets face itLife is a match.You know it and I know it,And where you sit depends how it goes,And –... Continue reading

Helen Burke

Visual Arts

Victims of Capitalism: Art in the Wake of World War One

3 July 2018 / 330

Christine Lindey reviews a new exhibition at Tate Britain, called Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One. It includes powerful, angry and sorrowful anti-war and... Continue reading

Christine Lindey

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