Blog – Page 33 – Culture Matters

Class, gender and authority: the life and work of Dorothy Edwards

21 August 2023 / 384

Geoff Sawers introduces the life and work of Dorothy Edwards. Image above: Dorothy holding Dora Carrington’s cat, credit: King’s College, Cambridge, ref FCP/7/4/2/101 Born in 1902 or... Continue reading

Geoff Sawers

Fiction

Small Infinities

16 August 2023 / 366

Introduction By Fran Lock Small Infinities is an appropriate title for a book – and an author – so enamoured of outlandish juxtaposition, paradox, and contradiction. While... Continue reading

Paul Victor Tims

Fiction

Strumpet City, by James Plunkett

14 August 2023 / 358

The Dublin lockout of 1913 was one of the greatest industrial disputes in Irish history. The conflict between some 20,000 workers and 300 employers lasted from 26... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

Portrait of a revolutionary: Guevara in Kilkee

11 August 2023 / 401

Sixty years ago, in 1963, an Aeroflot flight from Moscow was on route to Havana and had to stop at Shannon airport due to fog. Shannon, then... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Poetry

Daffodils

11 August 2023 / 395

Daffodils by Fran Lock and what of them? hardy stragglersbetween wastelands, waste laneswith the weather wetly trepanning the factories. by junctions of squathope, the stooping of resolute... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Theatre

Fierce and funny political theatre: ‘England & Son’ at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

10 August 2023 / 474

He’s done it again! A few years ago, Ed Edwards exploded into Edinburgh with ‘A Political History of Smack and Crack’, performed at the Fringe Festival. It... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Poetry

Respite

10 August 2023 / 370

Respite by Wayne Dean-Richards I watch an episode of the original Star Trek TV series, followed immediately by an episode ofWhatever Happened to the Likely Lads? followed... Continue reading

Wayne Dean-Richards

Poetry

imitating wordsworth

7 August 2023 / 317

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Dakota Pollock

Poetry

Review of ‘The Dogs’ and ‘Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar’

7 August 2023 / 359

Nick Moss reviews two new books from Smokestack: The Dogs, by Michael Stewart, and Black Bullets in the Sweet Jar by Alison Carr Michael Stewart’s The Dogs... Continue reading

Nick Moss

Poetry

My Liverpool Home

3 August 2023 / 368

My Liverpool home by Ruth Aylett Made by a funnel-shaped Mersey whose bottlenecked tides scouredthe sand that did for Chester;made by blood money lives of the enslaved,... Continue reading

Ruth Aylett

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