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The unflinching radicalism of Kim James

30 April 2020 / 407

Nick Wright remembers Kim James’ materialist approach to art What strikes me most about Kim James’ place in the discourses around art, creativity and consciousness is his... Continue reading

Nick Wright

Books

Almarks

30 April 2020 / 325

Almarks: an Anthology of Radical Poetry from Shetland edited by Jim Mainland and Mark Ryan Smith, with images by Michael Peterson ISBN: 978-1-912710-20-1 What is radical poetry?... Continue reading

Jim Mainland

TV, internet and other media

‘Babylon Berlin’ and German fascism; ‘Superstore’ and the age of Amazon

28 April 2020 / 362

Dennis Broe reviews more series TV, from Germany and from the U.S. Image above: military fascists in Weimar Berlin Season three of the German megaseries Babylon Berlin... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Poetry

‘The life I lived was a woman’s life’: Eavan Boland, one of Ireland’s finest poets

28 April 2020 / 382

Jenny Farrell remembers the life and work of the late Eavan Boland Eavan Boland died on 27 April 2020. She ranks among Ireland’s finest poets, and was... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Cultural Commentary

Common Ground: rebuilding community and co-operation after Covid-19

25 April 2020 / 355

Lyndsey Ayre reflects on common ground, coronavirus, and the values of the labour movement. The image is of a piece of embroidery by Melanie Kyles This must... Continue reading

Lyndsey Ayre

Cultural Commentary

Class and culture in the age of Coronavirus

20 April 2020 / 324

Dennis Broe traces the links between class and the coronavirus, and parallels in cultural works. Plus ca change…….. In many ways the rearrangement of life in the... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Fiction

Robert Tressell’s 150th anniversary

19 April 2020 / 393

Robert Tressell was born 150 years ago, on 17 April 1870 – see here Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

The precarious lives of working people: Hokusai’s Return

16 April 2020 / 341

Hokusai’s Return by Chris Nash Rowers bent over in labourand reaching for a nowherewhere you can / you cannotdrive further, drive throughoshiokuri bune frail prows,oars in rhyme... Continue reading

Chris Nash

Cultural Commentary

A well-built wall, or other work of art: Alasdair Gray

13 April 2020 / 293

David Betteridge takes us along Glasgow’s Byres Road, enjoying several works of public art by the late Alasdair Gray, who died on 29 December, 2019, the day after his... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Poetry

Easter Rising 1916: The Wayfarer, by Pádraig Pearse

10 April 2020 / 321

Jenny Farrell presents the final poem in the series of poems written by the leaders of the Easter Rising of 1916. It is Pádraig Pearse’s “The Wayfarer”.... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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