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The Immigrant In The Room – And On The Street

14 August 2024 / 348

The Immigrant In The Room – And On The Street by David Erdos It seems quiet here now, and yet Uxbridge neighbours Hounslow,As do other strained suburbs... Continue reading

David Erdos

Poetry

May/Oral

14 August 2024 / 311

May/Oral by Jo Colley Put on a hi-viz jacket, and you could be anyone, here in sprawling Teesside hinterlands: aspirational, Houchened, overlooked, with only ourselves to think... Continue reading

Jo Colley

Poetry

Swimming in a Fishbowl of Piranhas

2 August 2024 / 314

Swimming in a fishbowl of piranhas by Sam Friedman There is not a lot of poetryin a job from 9 to 5and this tiny rhythmic remnantlives in... Continue reading

Sam Friedman

Films

Becoming the Backdrop: The Oppression of Native Americans in Hollywood cinema, and ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’

30 July 2024 / 545

Killers of the Flower Moon is a recent epic movie set in the 1920s examining a series of murders of members of the Osage Nation, who became... Continue reading

Caoimhghin O Croidheain

Poetry

What Rough Beast? A REVISED Callout for Poetry and Artworks about Donald Trump, Trumpism, the USA and the world

26 July 2024 / 368

Image above: Jose Guadalupe Posada’s Gran Calavera Eléctrica BELOW IS THE REVISED CALLOUT: PLEASE NOTE NEW GUIDELINES AND NEW DEADLINE OF 10 OCTOBER 2024 Donald Trump has already... Continue reading

Culture Matters

Fiction

A Drive to Change the World: James Baldwin, Black Author, Socialist and Activist

26 July 2024 / 652

James Baldwin, the important left-wing, Black author and activist, was born one hundred years ago in Harlem, New York, on 2 August 1924. Baldwin’s stepfather David, a... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Drowning in Berlin

25 July 2024 / 340

I was recently in Berlin for the first time. I was invited for the 25th annual Poesiefestival. I was nervous. As the last of my circle to... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

The Seeds We Plant Will Grow: ‘Sapling and Wood’ by David Betteridge

18 July 2024 / 335

Jim Aitken introduces Sapling and Wood by David Betteridge, available here A sapling, as we know, is a young tree. If this young tree manages to grow... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Theatre

Politics, pubs, and pop-up pastors: Interview with Mark Thomas

18 July 2024 / 583

Mike Quille interviews Mark Thomas about comedy, politics, pubs, Starmer, the miners, his latest show, and being a pastor. Image above by Tracey Moberley 1. Mark, looking on... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Poetry

A Golden Shovel, from Shakespeare’s Henry VI Part 2

11 July 2024 / 356

A Golden Shovel, from Shakespeare’s Henry VI Part 2 Written Upon the Green Party Winning Four Seats by Julian Bishop A musk rose budding, rosette for a... Continue reading

Julian Bishop

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