Page 42

The spirit of Victor Jara lives on in Wales

17 March 2022 / 330

From August 5th to the 7th, Wales will reverberate to the unlikely sounds of Latin American music with a distinctly political twist as the El Sueño Existe festival... Continue reading

Pete Godfrey

Films

‘My movies are about class inequality’: Rita Di Santo interviews Alejandra Márquez Abella

3 March 2022 / 393

Rita di Santo interviews Alejandra Marquez Abella about her recent film Northern Skies Over Empty Space After directing an episode of Narcos for Netflix, and a future... Continue reading

Rita Di Santo

Poetry

Culture Matters presents: A Fish Rots From The Head

3 March 2022 / 348

Culture Matters is pleased to announce a special event in our digital reading series: the online launch of the free flash anthology A Fish Rots From The... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Wern My Fault

2 March 2022 / 325

Wern My Fault by Mike Jenkins There wuz this fuckin ard gangLed by this bloke Vlad(Arfta some ol rooler). Ee didn give a toss‘Bout trainers on wires,Ee... Continue reading

Mike Jenkins

Fiction

A Timeline of Women: Letting Go, by Gerda Stevenson

26 February 2022 / 370

A short story collection can, in certain respects, be seen as similar to a poetry collection. If the individual stories, like the individual poems, are well conceived... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Music

Gutsy, Punkish Sound-Bombs: On the Radicalism of Fontaines D.C.

23 February 2022 / 366

On a red carpet in February 2020, Grian Chatten, the front-man and vocalist for Fontaines D.C., was asked about the recent general election in Ireland, which had... Continue reading

Ciaran O Rourke

Music

Three contemporary working-class composers of classical music

20 February 2022 / 498

Classical music does not really know how to deal with the working class – either as listeners or as artists working in it. My articles in the... Continue reading

Ben Lunn

Poetry

Two poems about this callous government, from Owen Gallagher

17 February 2022 / 325

Children are shrinking before us by Owen Gallagher And when they cut budgets again, for families and schools,we on the opposition benches said: ‘Surelythey can’t cut them... Continue reading

Owen Gallagher

Poetry

Georg Weerth, the German proletariat’s first and most important poet

12 February 2022 / 322

“Weerth, the German proletariat’s first and most important poet, the son of Rhineland parents, was born in Detmold, where his father was church superintendent. In 1843, when... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Gabriel Rosenstock presents a bilingual tanka, in Irish and English (5-7-5-7-7 syllables) in response to an artwork (above) by Henry Ossawa Tanner, the first African-American artist to... Continue reading

Gabriel Rosenstock