Category: Books

Machine / Language   Martin Hayes has long been one of the most prolific and original poets of labour writing in this country. In Machine / Language he further... Continue reading

Thirty poems in various forms and styles—rhyme, blank verse, free verse, villanelle, and ‘villanelle-vague’—tackle the seismic events and vicissitudes of recent years: Brexit, Grenfell and the “hostile... Continue reading

The Haunting: Deleted Scenes is a free downloadable pdf from Culture Matters, available below.  It’s an unsettling poetic riff on the 1963 film The Haunting, and the... Continue reading

This collection of beautifully illustrated love poems ranges from protesting the inequities and cruelties of our fragmenting world to delight in the variety and beauty of creation,... Continue reading

Gwrthryfel / Uprising takes us on a journey to the heart of Cymru. Edited by Merthyr writer Mike Jenkins, co-editor of ‘Red Poets’ magazine, with artwork by... Continue reading

Every year for the past five years, Culture Matters has run a Bread and Roses Poetry Award, supported by Unite the Union. The competition is free to... Continue reading

This is the final book in a set of three volumes of working people’s writing from contemporary Ireland. It follows on from a poetry anthology, Children of... Continue reading

Moya Roddy’s new collection of stories catapult us into the minds and hearts of working-class people who, despite a class system that offers them very little, reveal... Continue reading