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We Are the Workers

6 March 2024 / 353

We Are The Workers by Alan McGuire, with image above by Ehsan Ganji You find new muscles everyday.Emotions stay dead in place.We’re productive yet recyclable.We are the... Continue reading

Alan McGuire

Films

From Salford to Saltburn: Class, Privilege and the Screen Industries

5 March 2024 / 367

Jon Baldwin compares and contrasts Nobody Loves You and You Don’t Deserve to Exist with Saltburn. Image above by Paul Routledge, see here Nobody Loves You and... Continue reading

Jon Baldwin

Films

‘Americonned’ film review: how we’re conned by capitalism in the US and Britain

5 March 2024 / 430

Hi, my name is Brett Gregory, Associate Editor for the UK arts, culture and politics website, Culture Matters, and this is my review of Sean Claffey’s 2023... Continue reading

Brett Gregory

Poetry

The Sacred and the Profane: Poetry workshops with Jenny Mitchell

27 February 2024 / 390

Culture Matters is proud to present two online poetry workshops on the theme of The Sacred and the Profane, led by award-winning poet Jenny Mitchell. How can... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Poetry

Callout: The Bread and Roses Poetry Award 2024

27 February 2024 / 377

We are very pleased to announce that thanks to support from Unison (Newcastle City Centre branch), and Newcastle Trades Union Council, the eighth Bread and Roses Poetry... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Poetry

Bucephalus on a B Road

27 February 2024 / 354

Below is a fine new poem by Jane Burn. But first, an advert! Not for the purposes of making a profit, but in order to promote cultural... Continue reading

Jane Burn

Visual Arts

Integrity, Professionalism and Accountability?

27 February 2024 / 452

Risgi Sunak promised us ‘integrity, professionalism and accountability’ when he became leader of the Tory party……. Continue reading

Martin Gollan

Poetry

The Workers Consider the Strike as Serota Observes the Richter

24 February 2024 / 381

The Workers Consider the Strike as Serota Observes the Richter by James O’Brien The undertaker appeared rooted, transfixed as a glare,As rigid as a fire poker in... Continue reading

James O Brien

Poetry

Shared Anger by Alan McCormick ice through their veins,a slab holding form,despite the friction,the heat from outside, ruling with fists,starving with favours,silencing the herd,who die to speak,... Continue reading

Alan McCormick

Fiction

Money & Blood

24 February 2024 / 331

Wayne Dean-Richards is a working-class writer, and middle-class agents and publishers just cannot relate to his stories. History, in England at least, shows that to be... Continue reading

Neil Campbell