Cask Ale Week, backed by Cask Marque, is an annual promotion of cask ale which runs in early Autumn each year. Its aim is to get the... Continue reading
Chad McCail introduces his new mural, Hopes and Fears, at Millfield Metro Station, Millfield, Sunderland, SR4 7AF. It was made between September 2022 and September 2023, and... Continue reading
Black Hair by Jenny Mitchell Entering the gallery, you’ll see it in a case, dark strands gathered close, size of a fist,taken from a Negroid head. Long-denigrated... Continue reading
Image above: Ralph Chaplin – Cartoon published in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) journal Solidarity on June 30, 1917. “My unlucky countrymen have always had a taste... Continue reading
Eyeless by Ruth Aylett They bombed other people’s housesin Gaza, fish-in-a-barrelso we sold them some more bombs agreed that those others were terroristsso the world was probably... Continue reading
Worlds apart by John Short Sabadell, Catalonia In the streets and parksWest Africans drag hijacked shopping carts, collecting scrap to be conjured into cash. Trinket sellers press... Continue reading
Jenny Farrell reviews Sean O’Casey: Political Activist and Writer by Paul O’Brien Anybody who has come across the work of independent scholar and critic Paul O’Brien knows... Continue reading
Ukraine is a bilingual poem in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock, inspired by Nie Wieder Krieg (Never Again War) by Karl Wiener (see above, Public Domain... Continue reading
Culture Matters is proud to commemorate Black History Month 2023 and mark National Poetry Day with the first of four new poems by the award-winning writer Jenny... Continue reading