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Poetry, publishers and paltry payments

1 August 2023 / 353

The poetry world hates poor poets. Discuss if you’ve ever been told your poem has been accepted for publication (hurrah!) but there’s no fee (how do I... Continue reading

Jenny Mitchell

TV, internet and other media

Public service broadcasting vs. competitive capitalist profit-making: the crisis at RTÉ

27 July 2023 / 412

The current implosion at RTÉ is not merely a short-term issue of corporate governance and public accountability. Its provenance goes a long way back in the history... Continue reading

Rod Stoneman

TV, internet and other media

Challenging the Corporate Lords of Film and TV

25 July 2023 / 472

Hollywood writers and actors are on strike, the first time both unions have been on strike at the same time since 1960. It’s thrown the industry into... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

TV, internet and other media

And Just Like That…

25 July 2023 / 366

Business ontology was described by Mark Fisher: “Over the past thirty years, capitalist realism has successfully installed a ‘business ontology’ in which it is simply obvious that... Continue reading

Alan McGuire

Poetry

Whippoorwills and Welding Rods

25 July 2023 / 353

Whippoorwills and Welding Rods by Fred Voss When I first started in a machine shopI didn’t even know how t use a file“Didn’t anyone teach you how... Continue reading

Fred Voss

Theatre

England and Son is a one-man play written specifically for the political comedian Mark Thomas by award-winning playwright Ed Edwards (The Political History of Smack and Crack). It’s a heartbreaking... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Cultural Commentary

How do you write about Empire and the end of Empire?

19 July 2023 / 552

Ed Edwards asks how does a dramatist create realistic characters in the context of Empire and the end of Empire? When I first became aware of the horrors... Continue reading

Ed Edwards

Bradman: A Dialectical View of the Don

17 July 2023 / 748

As England and Australia continue the age-old clashes for the Ashes this summer, one name always hovers over the collective psyche of both teams as they take... Continue reading

Sean Ledwith

Poetry

15 July 2023 / 368

The ©Rime of the Centrist Academic By I.L. Literate I’m supposed to earn a living from original thoughtAnd question power structures of every sort.I claim to be... Continue reading

I. L. Literate

Life Writing

Labyrinths of Austerity

14 July 2023 / 380

Writer-director Brett Gregory on his bleak, moving, semi-autobiographical feature film, ‘Nobody Loves You and You Don’t Deserve to Exist’, which tackles austerity, class, and mental health. Images... Continue reading

Brett Gregory

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