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The Cry of the Poor

20 September 2021 / 321

Culture Matters is proud to announce the publication and launch of The Cry of the Poor: An Anthology of Radical Writing About Poverty, selected and edited by... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Music

The dedicated life and music of Mikis Theodorakis

15 September 2021 / 328

Mikis Theodorakis (1925-2021) has left the mortal plane, and one can only imagine he is flying the red flag in the heavenly realm – agitating alongside the... Continue reading

Ben Lunn

Visual Arts

The revolutionary realism of Caravaggio

14 September 2021 / 394

Jenny Farrell discusses the work of Caravaggio, who revolutionised European art. Image above: Judith Beheading Holofernes Born 450 years ago, on 29 September 1571, Caravaggio lived and... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Sisterhood, Socialism, and Struggle: Poetry and the Work of Solidarity

14 September 2021 / 340

As I sit down to write this column the 40th anniversary of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp is fast approaching, with hundreds of women planning to... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Music

La Población: The Chilean album that celebrated a shanty town

14 September 2021 / 413

50 years ago, in 1972, the great Chilean singer song-writer Victor Jara released one of his final albums, ‘La Población’ . It consists of 9 songs which... Continue reading

Tim Hollins

Poetry

A Just Transition for Workers

12 September 2021 / 346

A Just Transition for Workers by Mick Drury ‘Get a job you wankers’ shouts the irate fist passing in his 4×4.Others wave and blow their horns. Outside... Continue reading

Mick Drury

Life Writing

The barriers to working-class writers: Review of The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices

11 September 2021 / 476

Jenny Farrell reviews The 32: An Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices, edited by Paul McVeigh Working-class writing is coming to the fore in Ireland. “The 32” follows... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Life Writing

From Lucifer to Lazarus: A Life on the Left

7 September 2021 / 426

Jenny Farrell reviews Mick O’Reilly’s From Lucifer to Lazarus: A Life on the Left (Dublin: Lilliput Press, 2019) At the end of From Lucifer to Lazarus, Mick O’Reilly raises a... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Anthropocaust

6 September 2021 / 308

Anthropocaust by Rip Bulkeley Cassandra never smiled. Devastation,though future for others, was her constantreality. En route to the death campspeople were still together, had luggage,and could try... Continue reading

Rip Bulkeley

My body is not your soapbox

6 September 2021 / 313

My body is not your soapbox by Cheryl Vail you are not the arbiter of my curve appealthe constable ticketing the lack of a gap between thighsor... Continue reading

Cheryl Vail

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