Blog – Page 16 – Culture Matters

‘We need a radical Red Marx, not a cuddly Green Marx’: Climate change as class war

29 March 2024 / 521

Jon Baldwin reviews some current thinking on climate change, Marx and the radical left Assuming that the free market and contemporary democratic states are not up to... Continue reading

Jon Baldwin

Music

Hue and Cry, and Labour’s Lost Loves

29 March 2024 / 409

‘Gonna withdraw my labour of love Gonna strike for the right to get into your heart, yeah Withdraw my labour of love Gonna strike for the right... Continue reading

Steven Hughes

Poetry

Factions

28 March 2024 / 357

Factions by Fran Lock / late diagnosis. it’s a language of dragnets and factions./ contractions and stammers. his slack-jaw gravitates./ to globalized consciousness. this corporate scorn, and... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Books

Convulsions, 2021-24: a Trusstercluck

28 March 2024 / 416

These are polemical and activist poems written to predict and hasten the demise of our tottering government and—hopefully—of the Conservative Party itself. The present-day Tory party and... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Fiction

Maybe Monday

27 March 2024 / 388

Managers are mystics. Must be because they’re always telling the people who work for them about their fucking vision. Their fucking vision for the company,... Continue reading

Wayne Dean-Richards

Poetry

Naming

27 March 2024 / 464

Naming by Chris Norris Pray tell us, you wise men and scholars all,Pray tell us by what law you take it ill,This usage of what we see... Continue reading

Chris Norris

Fiction

Fiction about fiction: ‘The Living and the Rest’, by José Eduardo Agualusa

27 March 2024 / 415

Since the Second World War, authors have regularly conceived of plots set around a cataclysmic event that cuts off people or places from the rest of the... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Review of ‘Out of Gaza – New Palestinian Poetry’, edited by Atef Alshaer and Alan Morrison

25 March 2024 / 697

Nick Moss reviews Out of Gaza – New Palestinian Poetry, edited by Atef Alshaer and Alan Morrison, Smokestack Books 2024 “Palestinian poetry, including from within Gaza and... Continue reading

Nick Moss

Poetry

Midnight Boxcar Poetry

25 March 2024 / 385

Midnight Boxcar Poetry by Fred Voss Sometimes I feel I should tell all the men in this buildingI write poemsabout themtheir smilestheir hammers their larger-than-life laughs bouncing... Continue reading

Fred Voss

Poetry

Communism

22 March 2024 / 325

Communism by Jade Welburn Capitalism Ain’t the vision That I would like to see! Community action An organised faction Is what we need to be! Liberalism All... Continue reading

Jade Welburn

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