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The Sword and the Sickle: William Blake and class struggle

4 December 2020 / 344

To celebrate his 79th birthday, David Betteridge writes about swords, sickles and class struggle I Have a slow look at the drawing shown above. Is it not... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Poetry

Amnesia of the Asylum-seeker

4 December 2020 / 335

Amnesia of the Asylum-seeker by Leah Fleetwood Who we were back then, it’s hard to recall:lawyers, actors, fruit-sellers at a stall;street-singers, clerics, or newssheet writers?How were we... Continue reading

Leah Fleetwood

Music

A proclamation of universal human community: Beethoven’s Ode to Joy

4 December 2020 / 379

Jenny Farrell discusses Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, on the eve of the 250th anniversary of his birth Like few other composers, Beethoven expresses the will for freedom, the... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

2020

3 December 2020 / 319

2020 by Tom Hubbard Cardboard covers the flesh in a smitten street,While, immunised from sudden empathy,Flesh covers pasteboard as high chancers greetDank festivals of mediocrity.Their very bodies... Continue reading

Tom Hubbard

Theatre

An Enemy of the People

2 December 2020 / 374

Anthony Squiers reviews an astonishingly relevant production of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People, performed on Zoom by the J.T. and Margaret Talkington College of Visual... Continue reading

Anthony Squiers

Poetry

The myth of the self-made man

1 December 2020 / 391

Paul Dovey

Life Writing

A barricade of resistance: Review of From the Plough to the Stars

29 November 2020 / 379

Paul Simon reviews From the Plough to the Stars, edited by Jenny Farrell This anthology is another impressive book from the Culture Matters imprint and is funded... Continue reading

Paul Simon

Poetry

See what life is like: an interview with Dorothy Spencer

26 November 2020 / 338

Fran Lock interviews Dorothy Spencer, an editor at Lumpen journal, writer, poet and mental health worker. Her first collection, See What Life is Like was published by... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Naked under 10,000-watt lightbulbs

25 November 2020 / 363

Naked under 10,000-watt lightbulbs by Fred Voss We machinistsare lucky to have our machinesmachine handles we can grab when we are lonely green steel machine sides we... Continue reading

Fred Voss

Poetry

What is Present: History, by John Berger

17 November 2020 / 335

David Betteridge writes about the poem ‘History’ What interests me about the existence of archives is that you enter the past which is as it were in... Continue reading

David Betteridge

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