Blog – Page 74 – Culture Matters

Moonshot Haiku and Impressions of a Curate’s Egg

14 September 2020 / 332

Moonshot haiku by Laura Taylor Moonshot ambition; bukkake for the nation. Pass the flannel, please. Impressions of a Curate’s Egg by Laura Taylor It was the best... Continue reading

Laura Taylor

Poetry

She Died Alone

14 September 2020 / 343

She Died Alone by Mike Jenkins She died there in hospital,no husband, Sissy, daughter Ingridno church kin around herand at her funeral of regulation 10her own Lusamba... Continue reading

Mike Jenkins

Music

“Radio Station: Harlem”: Listening to Langston Hughes

11 September 2020 / 416

As increasingly militarised police forces and emboldened white supremacists provoke and attack people of colour and their allies, Ciarán O’Rourke shows the relevance of Langston Hughes’ political... Continue reading

Ciaran O Rourke

Cultural Commentary

Narrow Streets: publishing and the class conundrum

10 September 2020 / 362

Lyndsey Ayre writes about the class problem in publishing On the inside cover of the 2019 edition of Tove Ditlevsen’s Childhood – the first of her autobiographical... Continue reading

Lyndsey Ayre

Poetry

The People Died

6 September 2020 / 381

Karl Parkinson presents The People Died, published in his recent collection Sacred Symphony (Culture Matters) The poem has been made into a video by poet and videographer Dave... Continue reading

Karl Parkinson

Sport

Of Empires and Umpires: Cricket and Politics in Pakistan

2 September 2020 / 370

Sean Ledwith writes about how colonialism and racism has conditioned the history of Test cricket between Pakistan and England This summer’s Test series between England and Pakistan... Continue reading

Sean Ledwith

Life Writing

1 September 2020 / 339

Michael Jarvie introduces a new section of our website, on Life Writing My collection of working-class life writing, Into the Silence, has a Dewey Decimal Classification of... Continue reading

Michael Jarvie

Life Writing

‘Between Misery and the Sun’: I Don’t Want to Go to the Taj Mahal, by Charlie Hill

1 September 2020 / 367

Fran Lock reviews Charlie Hill’s new memoir Charlie Hill’s memoir, I Don’t Want to Go to the Taj Mahal, is told in a series of linked poetic... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Rule Britannia and the shameful arrogance of right-wing class politics

26 August 2020 / 344

Stuart Cartland criticises the jingoistic response to the BBC’s decisions about Rule Britannia. If as a nation we are to be serious about addressing racism and legacies of... Continue reading

Stuart Cartland

Cultural Commentary

The Necessity of Green

24 August 2020 / 543

David Betteridge writes critically and creatively about the artwork above, Nature writing, Bertolt Brecht, and eco-communism. The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount... Continue reading

David Betteridge

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