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Plague Songs – It Cures What Ails Ya!

3 June 2020 / 354

Plague Songs – It Cures What Ails Ya! by Martin Rowson One should not mock the chronic sick,And nor should we mock DominicWhose road-based therapies recall,Damascus-bound, those... Continue reading

Martin Rowson

Poetry

Darkening

1 June 2020 / 327

Darkening by Steve Pottinger for george under a darkening skywe sit round a log fireout there cities are burningthe planet is burning and i can’t breathe out... Continue reading

Steve Pottinger

Poetry

breath

31 May 2020 / 347

breath by Fran Lock, with image by Martin Gollan inside this symmetrical fiction of skins, we do not courtthe carnivore attentions of a cop with eyes like... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

The Last Hurrah

31 May 2020 / 352

The Last Hurrah by Hamish Wilson In thanks, we gave our NHS a clap,banged saucepans, hooted, whistled, strummed and sang,gave glad hands for heroes, joyful urban rapwith... Continue reading

Hamish Wilson

Poetry

Canzone to an Underground Flow

22 May 2020 / 317

Canzone to an Underground Flow by Jane Burn There is a river underfoot. The road bearsabove it, thickly set. Every while, a squareof red-iron drain, skidded worn... Continue reading

Jane Burn

Poetry

Red Biddy by Fran Lock red biddy, noun, a mixture of cheap wine and methylated spirits. biddy, noun, of unknown origin; probably influenced by the use of biddy denoting an Irish maidservant, from Biddy,... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Fiction

The Gael becomes Irish: the long-term consequences of colonisation

19 May 2020 / 371

Jenny Farrell reviews Tomás Mac Síomóin’s The Gael Becomes Irish: An Unfinished Odyssey, Nuascéalta, 2020. “The Gael Becomes Irish”is Tomás Mac Síomóin’s latest publication, and it continues... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Visual Arts

The three wise monkeys: rich, powerful and extremely alert……

11 May 2020 / 365

…except to the cry of the poor. Continue reading

Martin Gollan

Fiction

Charles Dickens and working-class literature

11 May 2020 / 352

Jenny Farrell discusses Charles Dickens, the first English novelist to put ordinary people at the heart of the story This month marks the 150th anniversary of the... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Almarks: Radical Poetry from Shetland

9 May 2020 / 386

Jim Mainland introduces a new anthology of radical poetry from Culture Matters What is radical poetry? And can it change anything? The poems in ‘Almarks’ are radical... Continue reading

Jim Mainland

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