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Captain Rock: The symbol of a risen people

11 October 2023 / 428

Image above: Ralph Chaplin – Cartoon published in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) journal Solidarity on June 30, 1917. “My unlucky countrymen have always had a taste... Continue reading

Caoimhghin O Croidheain

Poetry

Eyeless

10 October 2023 / 340

Eyeless by Ruth Aylett They bombed other people’s housesin Gaza, fish-in-a-barrelso we sold them some more bombs agreed that those others were terroristsso the world was probably... Continue reading

Ruth Aylett

Poetry

Worlds Apart

10 October 2023 / 320

Worlds apart by John Short Sabadell, Catalonia In the streets and parksWest Africans drag hijacked shopping carts, collecting scrap to be conjured into cash. Trinket sellers press... Continue reading

John Short

Theatre

Sean O’Casey: Political Activist and Writer

9 October 2023 / 664

Jenny Farrell reviews Sean O’Casey: Political Activist and Writer by Paul O’Brien Anybody who has come across the work of independent scholar and critic Paul O’Brien knows... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Ukraine

9 October 2023 / 401

Ukraine is a bilingual poem in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock, inspired by Nie Wieder Krieg (Never Again War) by Karl Wiener (see above, Public Domain... Continue reading

Gabriel Rosenstock

Poetry

British History is Black: four poems from Jenny Mitchell

5 October 2023 / 503

Culture Matters is proud to commemorate Black History Month 2023 and mark National Poetry Day with the first of four new poems by the award-winning writer Jenny... Continue reading

Jenny Mitchell

Theatre

Holberrys

29 September 2023 / 391

Holberrys is a play about two Sheffield Chartists, Samuel and Mary Holberry, who helped organise the betrayed ‘physical force’ insurrection in the city in January 1840. Samuel,... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Films

The Old Oak – and the legacy of great films by Ken Loach

28 September 2023 / 437

Ken Loach’s latest film The Old Oak, opening in cinemas this weekend, may also be his last. At 87, if it really is time for Ken to... Continue reading

Mark Perryman

Poetry

Peace for all those alive: Pablo Neruda on the 50th anniversary of his death

25 September 2023 / 355

Peace for all those alive: peace for all lands and all waters. ************** In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda describes his... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

How and when the body collapses

23 September 2023 / 322

How and when the body collapses by Fran Lock / there’s a breach in the breath./ in that which surrounds and circulates./ in the warm gulf between... Continue reading

Fran Lock

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