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Culture for All – Why Poetry Matters

3 April 2022 / 298

Culture Matters publishes a lot of great poetry. Here’s Jenny Mitchell talking about why poetry matters; and the image above is from her recent award-winning book, Map... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Cultural Commentary

Culture for All

23 March 2022 / 331

Over the last year Culture Matters has been commissioning a series of short films about cultural democracy, called culture for all. The films cover a range of... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Cultural Commentary

Capitalism and Death

21 March 2022 / 338

My maternal grandmother passed away at 2 am on February 14, 2022. For her funeral, I went to Bihar where my grief was socialized among the many... Continue reading

Yanis Iqbal

Poetry

Writing a poem bursting into tears having misheard deforestation for defenestration

21 March 2022 / 295

Writing a poem bursting into tears having misheard deforestation for defenestration by Lisa Kelly, in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. Image above: Defenestrace, by Karel Svoboda... Continue reading

Lisa Kelly

Poetry

Poetry for the State We’re In

20 March 2022 / 371

Fran Lock writes about the current economic and political crises, and introduces poetry that constructs a ‘socialist imaginary’, a space for hope and protest, against the distractions... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Harri Webb and Merthyr Tydfil

17 March 2022 / 418

Harri Webb and Merthyr Tydfil 2020 was the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the poet Harri Webb, born on 7 September 1920 at Sketty, Swansea. He... Continue reading

Malcolm Llywelyn

Music

The spirit of Victor Jara lives on in Wales

17 March 2022 / 316

From August 5th to the 7th, Wales will reverberate to the unlikely sounds of Latin American music with a distinctly political twist as the El Sueño Existe festival... Continue reading

Pete Godfrey

Films

‘My movies are about class inequality’: Rita Di Santo interviews Alejandra Márquez Abella

3 March 2022 / 372

Rita di Santo interviews Alejandra Marquez Abella about her recent film Northern Skies Over Empty Space After directing an episode of Narcos for Netflix, and a future... Continue reading

Rita Di Santo

Poetry

Culture Matters presents: A Fish Rots From The Head

3 March 2022 / 333

Culture Matters is pleased to announce a special event in our digital reading series: the online launch of the free flash anthology A Fish Rots From The... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Wern My Fault

2 March 2022 / 308

Wern My Fault by Mike Jenkins There wuz this fuckin ard gangLed by this bloke Vlad(Arfta some ol rooler). Ee didn give a toss‘Bout trainers on wires,Ee... Continue reading

Mike Jenkins

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