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A Book for Christmas: The Sikh Snowman

18 November 2022 / 381

Some snowmen had topknots. Some wore football scarves and skull caps. Some had veils over their faces. One had fairy wings. They all began to sing…… Snowfall, friendship... Continue reading

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Poetry

Sisyphus at Royal Mail

15 November 2022 / 358

Sisyphus at Royal Mail by John Freeman I’ve never seen Bernard so indignant. It’s the day after the strike. There’s a backlog. I like my job, he... Continue reading

John Freeman

Poetry

After Auden

14 November 2022 / 374

After Auden by Jenny Mitchell About suffering they were never wrong,the slave masters: how hard they whipped until the humans, trapped, were made to kneel; how it... Continue reading

Jenny Mitchell

Visual Arts

From Benjamin to Hirst: Art in a Disposable Age

12 November 2022 / 383

Image above: “Currencies” by 16:9clue is licensed under CC BY 2.0. We live in a disposable age. If any further proof of this was needed, we need... Continue reading

Rebecca Lowe

Cultural Commentary

Romantic Heroes: Ameliorating the Dark Side of Capitalism

4 November 2022 / 354

Introduction The rapid spread of the science-based Enlightenment (c1687-c1804) across Europe during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was a cause of much dismay to the reigning monarchies... Continue reading

Caoimhghin O Croidheain

Visual Arts

Break Free

31 October 2022 / 354

Friedrich Farshaad Razmjouie

Theatre

Women’s rights and class relations: George Bernard Shaw’s ‘Pygmalion’

31 October 2022 / 507

George Bernard Shaw (26th July 1856 to 2nd November 1950) was the second Irish winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, awarded to him two years after... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Cultural Commentary

The butler in literature and films: a cultural construct of working-class deference and servility

31 October 2022 / 367

In the ancient world it tended to be the most trusted slaves who were put in charge of the care and service of the wine cellar. The... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Poetry

Green Hauntings / New & Selected Poems / Volume One / 2006-2016 – Alan Morrison

28 October 2022 / 390

Green Hauntings draws selections from four of Alan Morrison’s first six full volumes of poetry: The Mansion Gardens (2006), A Tapestry of Absent Sitters (2009), Blaze a Vanishing... Continue reading

Alan Morrison

Poetry

The Haunting: Deleted Scenes, by Kevin Patrick McCann

21 October 2022 / 386

Culture Matters is proud to introduce the first in their new series of digital poetry pamphlets, The Hanuting: Deleted Scenes by Kevin Patrick McCann. An unsettling poetic riff... Continue reading

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