Blog – Page 19 – Culture Matters

The Sacred and the Profane: Poetry workshops with Jenny Mitchell

27 February 2024 / 376

Culture Matters is proud to present two online poetry workshops on the theme of The Sacred and the Profane, led by award-winning poet Jenny Mitchell. How can... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Poetry

Callout: The Bread and Roses Poetry Award 2024

27 February 2024 / 362

We are very pleased to announce that thanks to support from Unison (Newcastle City Centre branch), and Newcastle Trades Union Council, the eighth Bread and Roses Poetry... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Poetry

Bucephalus on a B Road

27 February 2024 / 340

Below is a fine new poem by Jane Burn. But first, an advert! Not for the purposes of making a profit, but in order to promote cultural... Continue reading

Jane Burn

Visual Arts

Integrity, Professionalism and Accountability?

27 February 2024 / 430

Risgi Sunak promised us ‘integrity, professionalism and accountability’ when he became leader of the Tory party……. Continue reading

Martin Gollan

Poetry

The Workers Consider the Strike as Serota Observes the Richter

24 February 2024 / 369

The Workers Consider the Strike as Serota Observes the Richter by James O’Brien The undertaker appeared rooted, transfixed as a glare,As rigid as a fire poker in... Continue reading

James O Brien

Poetry

Shared Anger by Alan McCormick ice through their veins,a slab holding form,despite the friction,the heat from outside, ruling with fists,starving with favours,silencing the herd,who die to speak,... Continue reading

Alan McCormick

Fiction

Money & Blood

24 February 2024 / 318

Wayne Dean-Richards is a working-class writer, and middle-class agents and publishers just cannot relate to his stories. History, in England at least, shows that to be... Continue reading

Neil Campbell

Poetry

A new and original anthology of radical Welsh poetry

23 February 2024 / 354

Culture Matters intends to publish a new and original anthology of radical Welsh poetry. It will be edited by Mike Jenkins, founder member of the Red Poets collective... Continue reading

Culture Matters

TV, internet and other media

Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An elite gaze on populism and revolution

23 February 2024 / 355

There are always calls from the right to defund the British Broadcasting Company but they are now being joined by calls from the left as well, as... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Poetry

We’re back, baby! Rebel Admin and other poetry @ Centrala, Birmingham

23 February 2024 / 441

Culture Matters was back at Centrala in Digbeth on the 9th February 2024, to celebrate the launch of Al Hutchins’ stonking cerebral masterwork, Rebel Admin (Culture Matters,... Continue reading

Fran Lock

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The Sacred and the Profane: Poetry workshops with Jenny Mitchell

Callout: The Bread and Roses Poetry Award 2024

Bucephalus on a B Road

Integrity, Professionalism and Accountability?

The Workers Consider the Strike as Serota Observes the Richter

Shared anger

Money & Blood

A new and original anthology of radical Welsh poetry

Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An elite gaze on populism and revolution

We’re back, baby! Rebel Admin and other poetry @ Centrala, Birmingham

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