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It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care to act,
it starts when you do it again after they said no,
it starts when you say we and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.Marge Piercy
Mike Jenkins 
In Gaza by Kevin McCann, with image above by Martin Gollan There’s a boy, Maybe three, maybe four, Dirty knees, Dusty face, Tousled hair And within arm’s... Continue reading
Kevin McCann 
Yer Ower Voices! (Culture Matters) £12 , ISBN 978 1 912710 54 6 Editor: Mike Jenkins Dialect poems in Welsh and English from Cymru is the subtitle of... Continue reading
Jack Caradoc 
Uday, One Day by Jim Aitken In memory of Uday Abu Mohsen who lived only one dayafter being killed during the Siege of Gaza, 2023. Uday was... Continue reading
Jim Aitken 
Below is the last of the four new poems by Jenny Mitchell to mark Black History Month. For some background to the poem, see here and here. The Queen... Continue reading
Jenny Mitchell 
Trying To Go Home by Fred Voss “I’ve got a Bridgeport milling machine in my garage”a machinist would sayand another machinist would nodand say he had a... Continue reading
Fred Voss 
The five winners of this year’s Award are: Michael Lowkain, Jenny Mitchell, Ian Parks, Ross Walsh and Rob Walton. £100 will wing its wandering way to their... Continue reading
Culture Matters 
Outlook by Steven Taylor Mainly cloudyA chance of rainDusty. GrubbyRubble mostlyDeath expected Britain Could send umbrellasBut they preferProviding weaponsTo the killers (with instructionsto be careful, obviously) The... Continue reading
Steven Taylor 
“Salty Terms” to Deter Asylum Seekers (An extended villanelle or ‘villanelle-vague’) “If they don’t like barges then they should f*** off back to France” ... Continue reading
The three poems below are from a sequence of poems inspired by The Spanish Civil War and The International Brigade, which Bob Beagrie been working on for... Continue reading
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