Blog – Page 67 – Culture Matters

The Apple Tree

27 February 2021 / 331

The Apple Tree by Alan Sleater, with image by Steev Burgess Early in Autumn, our first crop of apples,Plentiful, but small and bitter to eatEmerged from the... Continue reading

Alan Sleater

Visual Arts

The Dialectics of Art

24 February 2021 / 424

John Molyneux introduces his new book, The Dialectics of Art This book is the product of a love of, and engagement with, art that goes back to my... Continue reading

John Molyneux

Poetry

To William and Psychogeography In The Year The World Shrank

15 February 2021 / 325

To William by Caroline Ritchie, image above is from Jerusalem by William Blake Inventing things that don’t work is a brilliant thing, you know. – William Lyttle.... Continue reading

Caroline Ritchie

Poetry

Secular Icon

14 February 2021 / 475

Secular Icon by Tom Hubbard They heard that he was ‘something in the City’And wore nice suits. The ideal son-in-law.The thought that he could lord it quite... Continue reading

Tom Hubbard

Poetry

John Keats: Revolutionary Romantic

11 February 2021 / 346

Jenny Farrell marks the 200th anniversary of Keats’s death. The image above is of Keats on his deathbed, by his friend Joseph Severn G. B. Shaw stated... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Cultural Commentary

Radical, subversive circus and cultural change

8 February 2021 / 369

Kimberley Reynolds describes how radical and transgressive circuses in twentieth-century children’s literature make the case for social and personal transformation. Above image: Family of Saltimbanques by Pablo Picasso, 1905 The... Continue reading

Kim Reynolds

Life Writing

Spit in a tube

8 February 2021 / 380

It all begins when I send off my spit in a tube to Dublin. Don’t be alarmed, it’s only the procedure for getting my DNA analysed. You... Continue reading

Michael Jarvie

Poetry

School Trip

24 January 2021 / 297

School Trip by Ceinwen Haydon, with image by Steev Burgess Mam can I go please can I go please all my friends are another note from school ... Continue reading

Ceinwen Haydon

Poetry

Two poems

18 January 2021 / 304

The Count by Caroline Maldonado First imagine Self in a shut room the curtainpulled tight When he comes for you again your heart like a... Continue reading

Caroline Maldonado

Poetry

Blooding

13 January 2021 / 312

Blooding by Rebecca Lowe ‘After the first, it becomes easier,’The cold, wild-eyed stare of the deer,A crazy fish-eye lens looking backwardsthrough terror – you shiver,You are only... Continue reading

Rebecca Lowe

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