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She Died Alone

14 September 2020 / 355

She Died Alone by Mike Jenkins She died there in hospital,no husband, Sissy, daughter Ingridno church kin around herand at her funeral of regulation 10her own Lusamba... Continue reading

Mike Jenkins

Music

“Radio Station: Harlem”: Listening to Langston Hughes

11 September 2020 / 426

As increasingly militarised police forces and emboldened white supremacists provoke and attack people of colour and their allies, Ciarán O’Rourke shows the relevance of Langston Hughes’ political... Continue reading

Ciaran O Rourke

Poetry

The People Died

6 September 2020 / 399

Karl Parkinson presents The People Died, published in his recent collection Sacred Symphony (Culture Matters) The poem has been made into a video by poet and videographer Dave... Continue reading

Karl Parkinson

Life Writing

1 September 2020 / 347

Michael Jarvie introduces a new section of our website, on Life Writing My collection of working-class life writing, Into the Silence, has a Dewey Decimal Classification of... Continue reading

Michael Jarvie

Life Writing

‘Between Misery and the Sun’: I Don’t Want to Go to the Taj Mahal, by Charlie Hill

1 September 2020 / 383

Fran Lock reviews Charlie Hill’s new memoir Charlie Hill’s memoir, I Don’t Want to Go to the Taj Mahal, is told in a series of linked poetic... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Rule Britannia and the shameful arrogance of right-wing class politics

26 August 2020 / 353

Stuart Cartland criticises the jingoistic response to the BBC’s decisions about Rule Britannia. If as a nation we are to be serious about addressing racism and legacies of... Continue reading

Stuart Cartland

Fiction

‘History Lite’: Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy

22 August 2020 / 375

John Green reviews Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of historical novels. The above image is Hans Holbein’s 1530s portrait of Thomas Cromwell Hilary Mantel’s trilogy on the life of... Continue reading

John Green

Fiction

A lesser evil

16 August 2020 / 457

13th October 2040 Dear Richard, I know it must be weird and more than slightly disturbing to receive a ‘letter from beyond the grave’, but I trust... Continue reading

Chris Norris

Fiction

Giovanni Boccaccio, writing at a time of plague

4 August 2020 / 389

Jenny Farrell gives the historical background to Boccaccio’s work The Black Plague was the most devastating pandemic ever recorded, resulting in the deaths of between 75-125 million... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Music

Singing new forms of escape: Paul Robeson’s afterlife in a U.S. prison

3 August 2020 / 438

Shana L. Redmond writes about Paul Robeson’s afterlife in a U.S. Prison “I have begun to undertake the task of trying to establish a Paul Robeson month here... Continue reading

Shana Redmond

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