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From the dystopian chaos of the free market to the solidarity of co-operative communism: the Maddaddam trilogy

12 November 2019 / 390

Jenny Farrell discusses Margaret Atwood’s Maddaddam trilogy Margaret Atwood, who turns 80 in November 2019, has written several novels that explore dystopian situations or circumstances where people are... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

No More War!

10 November 2019 / 355

David Betteridge notes how Remembrance Sunday at least marks the huge cost paid by the enforced many, not the few Watching the ceremony from The Cenotaph on TV... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Music

The Beatles and British culture: chippy class warriors to eternal spiritual explorers

10 November 2019 / 351

On the 50th anniversary of Abbey Road, Philip Bounds pays tribute to ‘four cultural subversives’ through the prism of an alternative Top Ten of their songs The Beatles... Continue reading

Philip Bounds

Books

The Children of the Nation: An Anthology of Working People’s Poetry from Contemporary Ireland

9 November 2019 / 358

The Children of the Nation: 203pps., £9 plus £3 p. and p. or €10 plus €5 p. and p. ISBN: 978-1-912710-25-6 This is a unique anthology of poetry in both... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Films

The Architects: a film about the reasons for the GDR’s collapse

8 November 2019 / 359

Jenny Farrell discusses The Architects, a film made in 1989/90 which traced the reasons for the collapse of the GDR 30 years ago, on 9 November 1990,... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Round Up

7 November 2019 / 374

Please note new guidelines and new deadline for the ‘What Rough Beast?’ callout for poems about Trump and Trumpism – see Poetry section. Also in the Poetry and... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Cultural Commentary

Socially engaged, internationalist and critical: the destruction of GDR culture since reunification

6 November 2019 / 324

John Green discusses the obliteration of GDR culture since reunification. The mosaic is in Eisenhüttenstadt, and is by Walter Womacka This month sees the 30th anniversary of... Continue reading

John Green

Poetry

To A Different Country

6 November 2019 / 328

To A Different Country by Mike Jenkins We were selling ticketsfor a journey to a different country(our own, yet changed totally).At the station our flags flappedin a... Continue reading

Mike Jenkins

Visual Arts

The frackers are fracking off

4 November 2019 / 359

Cabinet minister Andrea Leadsom has admitted the fracking suspension imposed by the government is a “disappointment”, as the Conservatives face escalating pressure to introduce a permanent ban. Her remarks came as... Continue reading

Martin Gollan

Books

arise! filmpoem

1 November 2019 / 401

Culture Matters has produced a short film, made by Carl Joyce, of the poem arise! by Paul Summers, sponsored by the Durham Miners’ Association. You can watch the... Continue reading

Mike Quille

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