Blog – Page 95 – Culture Matters

Building for a society of equals: 100 years of Bauhaus

23 February 2019 / 395

Jenny Farrell celebrates 100 years of Bauhaus, the German art school started in 1919 Inspired by Germany’s November 1918 Revolution, which was ultimately crushed by the Social... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

where we got the importance of peas from

22 February 2019 / 349

where we got the importance of peas from by Martin Hayes there have always been jobs ever since we were able to stand upand grew handsthings to... Continue reading

Martin Hayes

Poetry

In praise of strangeness

21 February 2019 / 370

Fran Lock writes in praise of a working-class poetics that revels in richness and strangeness, and includes a strange and rich poem taken from her forthcoming collection... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Fiction

Milkman

8 February 2019 / 346

Jenny Farrell reviews the novel Milkman, a peripheral view on a besieged working-class community during the North of Ireland Troubles, which has won the Man Booker Prize... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

TV, internet and other media

Facebook and why we should all own it

6 February 2019 / 320

Paul Tims, our regular Culture Punch columnist, sums up the problems with Facebook and calls for an end to private ownership of such an important means of... Continue reading

Paul Victor Tims

Books

£9 (plus £3.00 p. and p.) ISBN: 978-1-912710-10-2 Alan Morrison’s Shabbigentile is a counterpoint to his Forward Prize-nominated Tan Raptures (Smokestack Books, 2017), many of its poems having... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Eating & Drinking

Beer for the many in 2019

30 January 2019 / 348

Keith Flett surveys the beery landscape of 2019, and considers what a Labour Government could do about Big Beer You don’t need a crystal ball to know... Continue reading

Keith Flett

Poetry

Shayari: the progressive power of Urdu poetry

24 January 2019 / 346

Shayari by Christopher Norris In a Delhi hockey stadium in December, about 100,000 people of various ages, genders, and classes flooded in for two days of poetry,... Continue reading

Chris Norris

Cultural Commentary

A common treasury for all: Gerrard Winstanley and the Diggers

23 January 2019 / 368

John Storey tells the story of the 33 Digger communities, intended by Gerrard Winstanley as a first step in a revolution to change not just England but... Continue reading

John Storey

Poetry

Robert Burns the Democrat

22 January 2019 / 358

Download PDF Norrie Paton introduces this well-known pamphlet by J. R. Campbell, Robert Burns: The Democrat, which was first published in 1945, and has now been republished by... Continue reading

Norrie Paton

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