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Cheap flights, cheap hands, cheap lives

13 January 2021 / 269

Cheap flights, cheap hands, cheap lives by Antoniy T. Georgiev They pour into the WestCheap flights, cheap hands, cheap livesThey wear the paint of the oppressorsYet share... Continue reading

Antoniy T. Georgiev

Poetry

The Masks of Anarchy

11 January 2021 / 342

The Masks of Anarchy by Barry Smith The song of the Thames-side boatmenAs they sail the ship of stateRings out across the choppy watersWhile the winds of... Continue reading

Barry Smith

Eating & Drinking

Beyond Dry January and alcohol: the key role of the pub

9 January 2021 / 368

Keith Flett celebrates the key social role of the pub As we enter the New Year the Dry January campaign is once again active. It is a... Continue reading

Keith Flett

Poetry

A Finnish Story

6 January 2021 / 388

A Finnish Story* by Edward Mackinnon Landless, she worked on the land of a great landlord and his lady where the grass... Continue reading

Edward Mackinnon

Fiction

The language of the poor, of the most marginal and disdained: This Road of Mine, by Seosamh Mac Grianna

4 January 2021 / 372

Jenny Farrell introduces This Road of Mine, by Seosamh Mac Grianna, translated by Mícheál Ó hAodha. Published by The Lilliput Press, 2020. One of several important, socialist Irish language writers of the... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Fiction

A working-class voice from the Irish language tradition: Exiles, by Dónall Mac Amhlaigh

4 January 2021 / 365

Jenny Farrell reviews Exiles, by Dónall Mac Amhlaigh, translated by Mícheál Ó hAodha (Parthian, 2020) Awareness of working-class literature is only growing slowly in Ireland. This is... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Fiction

When Jeremy The Wicked Ruled His World

4 January 2021 / 486

When Jeremy The Wicked Ruled His World ‘Stick your hands up. This is a fucking robbery!’Two animal-masked men bounced up the steps of the tour bus with... Continue reading

Camillus John

Poetry

Spirograph: an interview with Pauline Sewards

4 January 2021 / 318

Fran Lock interviews Pauline Sewards about Spirograph, her latest collection of poems FL: Hi Pauline, thanks so much for agreeing to talk to me about your latest... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Emmanuel

24 December 2020 / 388

Emmanuel by Fran Lock sometimes the sky fights me. sometimes the dayis a dogful of loss. sometimes the day is a desert,a prolonged and hopeless music. how... Continue reading

Fran Lock