Blog – Page 64 – Culture Matters

This most bloody and divisive prime minister: Margaret Thatcher, exploitation and class struggle

18 June 2021 / 492

Fran Lock writes about Thatcher and her legacy. Image above: Steev Burgess Not quite a decade after her death, and already cultural depictions of former British prime... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

let them eat chips

18 June 2021 / 290

let them eat chips by Julie Easley common sense is cheap these days – just ask the rich they chuck in their opinion, churn out recipes for... Continue reading

Julie Easley

Poetry

Pain in My Heart

18 June 2021 / 282

Pain in My Heart by Sarah Barrington, with image above by Steev Burgess Before I left for universityMy friend Louisegot work for me, for the summer,At the... Continue reading

Sarah Barrington

Poetry

The Cut of those Cold, Sharp Stars

18 June 2021 / 294

The Cut of those Cold, Sharp Stars by Emma Lee I don’t think it’s to do with temperature.I feel every piece of grit, every puddle, the cold.There... Continue reading

Emma Lee

Visual Arts

The Colescott Chronicles Part I: breaking free of the shackles of colour blindness and abstract art

17 June 2021 / 352

Dennis Broe presents the first of a two-part topical study of Robert Colescott, whose politically committed art tackled issues of unequal racial and gender representation, and the history... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Fiction

Palestinian Tales

17 June 2021 / 312

Edward Mackinnon reviews Alan Dent’s new book I started reading Alan Dent’s Palestinian Tales a short time before the recent protests against the forced expulsion of Palestinians... Continue reading

Edward Mackinnon

Visual Arts

Boris Britain Wallpaper

17 June 2021 / 333

Jan Woolf

Life Writing

Belfast in 1969 and its aftermath: a memoir

17 June 2021 / 382

Francis Murphy presents a memoir of Northern Ireland in the late sixties Introduction Once again Northern Ireland is back in the headlines. Small scale rioting in Loyalist... Continue reading

Francis Murphy

Poetry

The Hurdle Race

17 June 2021 / 359

The Hurdle Race by Paul Francis The Guru says that every kidshould run the same race that he did.He wants lanes narrow, hurdles tall.A course where most... Continue reading

Paul Francis

Poetry

Notice to Quit

25 May 2021 / 308

Notice to Quit by Harriet Jae In ten days’ time, that’s it – she’ll be homeless.Nowhere to go yet her mind whirrs with Why? Questions circle like... Continue reading

Harriet Jae

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