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Review: One of These Dead Places, by Jane Burn

19 September 2019 / 377

Michael Jarvie reviews One of These Dead Places by Jane Burn Jane Burn has forged her characteristic poetical voice in what can only be described as the... Continue reading

Michael Jarvie

Music

Calum Baird: Modern Man

17 September 2019 / 301

Chris Guiton reviews Calum Baird’s latest release Calum Baird’s new single Modern Man is a potent take on male identity. The Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter and political activist writes... Continue reading

Martin George - fix

Music

The Bread and Roses Songwriting and Spoken Word Award 2020

13 September 2019 / 308

Mollie Brown introduces the Bread & Roses Songwriting and Spoken Word Award 2020, and ‘the instinctive joy of taking control of cultural production’ The Communication Workers’ Union... Continue reading

Mollie Brown

Films

The film itself is Bait

10 September 2019 / 310

Class conflict, and the various ways class divisions are expressed and resolved in personal relationships, from outright violence to affection and peaceful co-existence, form the central themes... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Music

Attica Blues: The Power of Music

10 September 2019 / 366

Chris Guiton discusses the Attica prison riot of September 1971, and Archie Shepp’s creative response to it In September 1971, the bloodiest prison riot that the United States... Continue reading

Martin George - fix

Music

By the folk, of the folk and for the folk: Joe Corrie and the Bowhill Players

9 September 2019 / 346

Tom Hubbard writes about Fife’s folk culture, past and present There are books which, discovered when you are young, remain a moral and artistic compass for you... Continue reading

Tom Hubbard

Poetry

Revolution

4 September 2019 / 333

Revolution by Sally Flint Top of Google it’s a wine bar, a game,a make-up range. I recall science lessons ‒to rotate, twirl, circuit, cycle, orbit.It’s the Earth... Continue reading

Sally Flint

Fiction

Finnegans Wake, fascism, and the essential unity of the human race

3 September 2019 / 352

Sean Ledwith shows how Finnegans Wake, far from being an incomprehensible waste of Joyce’s genius, is an anti-fascist masterwork, uniting and celebrating the wholeness, richness and vibrancy... Continue reading

Sean Ledwith

Visual Arts

The revolutionary realism of ‘Peasant Bruegel’

31 August 2019 / 359

Jenny Farrell discusses the life and work of ‘Peasant Bruegel’, unearthing the radically subversive protests and criticisms of political domination which are expressed so beautifully in his... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Fiction

The Cave of Gold

26 August 2019 / 417

David Betteridge re-tells an old tale, inspired by John Berger, Timothy Neat, and Margaret Bennett, with drawings by Bob Starrett The Cave of Gold by David Betteridge On... Continue reading

David Betteridge

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