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The Martyr: the last of Liam O’Flaherty’s banned novels to see the light in Ireland

2 October 2020 / 465

Jenny Farrell introduce Liam O’Flaherty’s The Martyr, Nuascéalta 2020. Liam O’Flaherty’s banned novel The Martyr has just been republished by Nuascéalta, eighty-seven years since its first and only... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

Peace

2 October 2020 / 344

Friedrich Farshaad Razmjouie

Poetry

‘Poetry is a rival government’: the poetry of William Carlos Wiliams

23 September 2020 / 370

Ciarán O’Rourke writes about the thoroughly politicised, internationalist and anti-fascist poetry of William Carlos Williams “Mourn O Ye Angels of the Left Wing!”, Allen Ginsberg exclaimed in... Continue reading

Ciaran O Rourke

Life Writing

Rebelling against materialism and dullness: I Don’t Want To Go To The Taj Mahal, by Charlie Hill

23 September 2020 / 358

Robert J. Gallagher, himself a Birmingham boy, reviews I Don’t Want To Go To The Taj Mahal: Stories of a Birmingham Boy, by Charlie Hill, available here... Continue reading

Robert J. Gallagher

Music

Capitalists with guitars: the Beatles, celebrity culture and social inequality

20 September 2020 / 361

Alan Dent argues that the Beatles’ success shows how pop culture entrenches inequality in capitalist societies It’s widely accepted that the Beatles are one of the most successful... Continue reading

Alan Dent

Poetry

Working-class poetics and heeding the ‘cry of the poor’

20 September 2020 / 357

Fran Lock writes about our potential to develop and publish a new kind of poetics, where solidarity and community can be fostered in moments of lyrical, dialectical... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

The Burden of Ownership

15 September 2020 / 333

The Burden of Ownership by Jenny Mitchell He measures cost in body parts. A head paysfor a month of food; two eyes a week of drink.Christmas adds... Continue reading

Jenny Mitchell

Poetry

Run on the food bank

15 September 2020 / 359

Run on the food bank by Mick O’Sullivan Unwanted crumbs are swept here, for today’s bumper giveaway. Proud feathers ruffle ‘midst flap and kerfuffle.Heads turn sharp, nervously... Continue reading

Mick O Sullivan

Fiction

All Quiet on the Western Front

15 September 2020 / 405

Jenny Farrell introduces the famous anti-war book, as we near the 50th anniversary of Erich Maria Remarque’s death. Image by Photofest World War I was termed the war that... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Moonshot Haiku and Impressions of a Curate’s Egg

14 September 2020 / 346

Moonshot haiku by Laura Taylor Moonshot ambition; bukkake for the nation. Pass the flannel, please. Impressions of a Curate’s Egg by Laura Taylor It was the best... Continue reading

Laura Taylor

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