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Trying To Go Home

26 October 2023 / 396

Trying To Go Home by Fred Voss “I’ve got a Bridgeport milling machine in my garage”a machinist would sayand another machinist would nodand say he had a... Continue reading

Fred Voss

Poetry

Bread and Roses Poetry Award 2023 – the winners!

26 October 2023 / 363

The five winners of this year’s Award are: Michael Lowkain, Jenny Mitchell, Ian Parks, Ross Walsh and Rob Walton. £100 will wing its wandering way to their... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Poetry

Outlook by Steven Taylor Mainly cloudyA chance of rainDusty. GrubbyRubble mostlyDeath expected Britain Could send umbrellasBut they preferProviding weaponsTo the killers (with instructionsto be careful, obviously) The... Continue reading

Steven Taylor

Poetry

“Salty Terms” to Deter Asylum Seekers

22 October 2023 / 330

“Salty Terms” to Deter Asylum Seekers (An extended villanelle or ‘villanelle-vague’) “If they don’t like barges then they should f*** off back to France” ... Continue reading

Alan Morrison

Poetry

The Spanish Civil War: Three poems by Bob Beagrie

22 October 2023 / 343

The three poems below are from a sequence of poems inspired by The Spanish Civil War and The International Brigade, which Bob Beagrie been working on for... Continue reading

Bob Beagrie

Poetry

British History is Black: Plantation Yard to Council Flat

22 October 2023 / 344

Plantation Yard to Council Flat by Jenny Mitchell Once there was a slaving house battered by the sun, rays like golden fists, blood oozing through the floors,... Continue reading

Jenny Mitchell

Poetry

Poetry / Filíocht

21 October 2023 / 423

Poetry/ Filíocht is a bilingual poem by Gabriel Rosenstock in response to the latest conflict in the Middle East Poetry perhaps rabbi Nachman could give me advice... Continue reading

Gabriel Rosenstock

Poetry

Business Meeting

20 October 2023 / 337

Business Meeting October 2023 by Edward Mackinnon The blood-red carpet’s been rolled out againfor the salesman with formidable armsand a mouth like the barrel of a gunwho... Continue reading

Edward Mackinnon

Films

The Gangsters in the U.S. Government: Killers of the Harvest Moon

20 October 2023 / 426

Torivio Fodder reviews Scorsese’s new film, arguing that although gangsters are the villains in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ the biggest thief of Native American wealth was... Continue reading

Torivio Fodder

Life Writing

Motherland

19 October 2023 / 442

The idea begins to take shape after the fortuitous discovery of the pale blue savings account book, wedged between two long-expired passports, and secured with an elastic... Continue reading

Michael Jarvie

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