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Provenance, by Kate Thompson: fighting inequality and injustice to Aboriginal peoples

15 November 2021 / 350

Jenny Farrell reviews Provenance, by Kate Thompson As Elliot Fielding struggles in an Australian hospital to piece together his fragmented memory following serious head injury, the reader... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Films

‘With art, you change people’: Sara Shazli’s Back Home

5 November 2021 / 382

Emerging filmmaker Sara Shazli’s Back Home had its world premiere at the El Gouna Film Festival. Twenty-eight years-old, she is the daughter of filmmaker and producer Marianne... Continue reading

Rita Di Santo

Poetry

How I Mistook the World for a Cow

4 November 2021 / 349

How I Mistook the World for a Cow by Cathy Dreyer It’s true. I thought the world was a large cow.I used to drain her bulgy dugs... Continue reading

mojohand

Films

Kill-Gang Curtain: On ‘Night of the Living Dead’

3 November 2021 / 410

In early April 1968, after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jnr, a panoramic rebellion, fuelled by the rage and grief of black communities grown increasingly forthright... Continue reading

Ciaran O Rourke

Films

No Time To Think: The Changing Geopolitics of International Blockbusters

3 November 2021 / 377

The latest Bond flick No Time To Die was certainly a rollercoaster ride of exciting action scenes and great special effects, yet contained more than a quantum... Continue reading

Caoimhghin O Croidheain

Poetry

A voice for the voiceless: In memory of Máire Mhac an tSaoi

1 November 2021 / 368

One of Ireland’s foremost Irish language poets and scholars, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, died aged 99, on 16 October. Her fellow poet Louis de Paor said of... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Music

Revolutionary hip-hop from RIP Lux

21 October 2021 / 344

Masquerade Shadows in Vienna Continue reading

RIP Lux

Films

Our Imaginary Arizonas: John Ford’s Stagecoach

20 October 2021 / 347

“All aboard for Lordsburg!”, my Dad used to shout. Immediately, my sister and I would scramble out to the garden to take our seats in the creaking,... Continue reading

Ciaran O Rourke

Poetry

The Merthyr Rising

20 October 2021 / 410

The Rising in Merthyr Tydfil in June 1831, led by ironstone miners and puddlers under a flag bathed in calves’ blood, was a notable event in the... Continue reading

Malcolm Llywelyn