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This is the News

26 April 2024 / 389

This is the News by David Betteridge Today: Household Cavalry horses run amok through London streets, their riders having lost control. Most days: Multitudinous rivers of sewage... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Poetry

Special Offer

19 April 2024 / 386

Special Offer by Chris Norris The State of Israel, strange as this may seem,Has offered us Iranian folk its aidIn getting shot of our ‘hated regime’By means... Continue reading

Chris Norris

Films

There’s Still Tomorrow

18 April 2024 / 368

This is a brilliant directorial debut of Italian actress, Paola Cortellesi. Sharp, elegant and passionate, she tells a story of the past with great love and great... Continue reading

Rita Di Santo

Poetry

The True Story of a Sable Maid’s Appearance in the 18th Century

16 April 2024 / 390

This poem was commissioned by Culture Matters as an act of solidarity with Francesca Amewudah-Rivers (above) who has recently suffered racist abuse for having the audacity to... Continue reading

Jenny Mitchell

Poetry

Review of ‘A Brief and Biased History of Love’ by Alan Humm

16 April 2024 / 394

A Brief and Biased History of Love by Alan Humm. £9. Culture Matters. ISBN 978-1-912710-55-3. Reviewed by Patricia McCarthy This interesting debut collection from novelist Alan Humm merits reading... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Poetry

Weekly Briefing

10 April 2024 / 339

Weekly Briefing by Owen Gallagher Starving children trudge to schoolwhile I serve tea to his Majestyand the Prime Minister. The King urges his PM to try his... Continue reading

Owen Gallagher

Poetry

Ghazal: no surviving family

9 April 2024 / 455

Ghazal: no surviving family by Janet Hatherley It’s a new acronym, the medic says,WCNSF. Wounded child, no surviving family. The three-year-old in her rescuer’s arms, chatters, glances... Continue reading

Janet Hatherley

Fiction

Dark Stories for Dark Times: The 2024 Crime Novel

9 April 2024 / 582

This year the Quais du Polar in Lyon, the largest European festival of crime novels and one of the largest in the world, in celebrating its 20th... Continue reading

Dennis Broe

Poetry

Two poems on the genocide in Gaza

8 April 2024 / 376

93n0c1d3 by Michal Lowkain a friend from my youthis a zionisthe loves buildingidf modelsincluding bulldozers the originals are used to destroy palestinian homes and hopes and lives... Continue reading

Michal Lowkain

Poetry

‘Bondage’ and ‘Captivity’: Two poems by Dan Melling, introduced by Fran Lock

6 April 2024 / 391

Introduction by Fran Lock Please read the poems below. In Bondage we enter a scene reminiscent of agrarian indentured labour, somewhere (to my mind anyway) in the long... Continue reading

Fran Lock

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