Blog – Page 71 – Culture Matters

Climate Matters

6 November 2020 / 311

Sally Flint, Virginia Baily and Mike Quille have edited a new anthology of various kinds of writing on the subject of the climate crisis and capitalism. It is... Continue reading

Sally Flint

Visual Arts

Four Horsemen

4 November 2020 / 316

Martin Gollan

Cultural Commentary

No Home for You Here: an interview with Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

4 November 2020 / 408

Mike Quille interviews Adam Theron-Lee Rensch about his new book No Home for You Here: A Memoir of Class and Culture Q. Can you tell us about... Continue reading

Mike Quille

The Dialectical Image

2 November 2020 / 370

Mike Wayne introduces his new film essay The Dialectical Image is a film essay about experience and the aesthetic. I say ‘the’ aesthetic because I am not... Continue reading

Mike Wayne

Poetry

Coal Monologues

2 November 2020 / 325

Coal Monologues by Willie Hershaw 1) Brother James I received the Abbot’s ordersinby the big pink house:“Yoke Joseph and Mary, to an oxen cart – take shovels,... Continue reading

William Hershaw

Fiction

The wrath and love of the oppressed: The Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka

28 October 2020 / 382

Razia Parveen reviews The Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka The Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka is a powerful and politically potent narrative which subtly weaves... Continue reading

Razia Parveen

Cultural Commentary

An interview with Julia Bell

28 October 2020 / 334

Fran Lock interviews Julia Bell Background Julia Bell is a writer and Reader in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London, where she is the Course Director... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Let’s pretend it’s butter

27 October 2020 / 293

Let’s pretend it’s butter by Sally Flint ‘It all starts with stability around access to food.’ – Marcus Rashford After the adrenaline rush of not knowing if her... Continue reading

Sally Flint

Poetry

Cultural Marxism

27 October 2020 / 295

Cultural Marxism by Martin Rowson I met a Cultural MarxistWho took me to Swan Lake“Those swans denote the Class War!”Quoth he. I found his takeCompelling if naive,... Continue reading

Martin Rowson

Poetry

Class Register

24 October 2020 / 312

Class Register by Alan Sleater The first register I called at Selkirk HighWas, to my incomer’s eyes, a roll callOf the Borders clans, and three hundred years... Continue reading

Alan Sleater

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