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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

Poetry

British History is Black: Plantation Yard to Council Flat

22 October 2023 / 322

Plantation Yard to Council Flat by Jenny Mitchell Once there was a slaving house battered by the sun, rays like golden fists, blood oozing through the floors,... Continue reading

Jenny Mitchell

Poetry

Poetry / Filíocht

21 October 2023 / 403

Poetry/ Filíocht is a bilingual poem by Gabriel Rosenstock in response to the latest conflict in the Middle East Poetry perhaps rabbi Nachman could give me advice... Continue reading

Gabriel Rosenstock

Poetry

Business Meeting

20 October 2023 / 320

Business Meeting October 2023 by Edward Mackinnon The blood-red carpet’s been rolled out againfor the salesman with formidable armsand a mouth like the barrel of a gunwho... Continue reading

Edward Mackinnon

Poetry

To those who seek nemesis in my name

14 October 2023 / 313

To those who seek nemesis in my name by Janet Sillett you do not do this in my nameyou do not use my nameyou do not speak... Continue reading

Janet Sillett

Poetry

British History is Black: Black Hair

11 October 2023 / 378

Black Hair by Jenny Mitchell Entering the gallery, you’ll see it in a case, dark strands gathered close, size of a fist,taken from a Negroid head. Long-denigrated... Continue reading

Jenny Mitchell

Poetry

Eyeless

10 October 2023 / 311

Eyeless by Ruth Aylett They bombed other people’s housesin Gaza, fish-in-a-barrelso we sold them some more bombs agreed that those others were terroristsso the world was probably... Continue reading

Ruth Aylett

Poetry

Worlds Apart

10 October 2023 / 283

Worlds apart by John Short Sabadell, Catalonia In the streets and parksWest Africans drag hijacked shopping carts, collecting scrap to be conjured into cash. Trinket sellers press... Continue reading

John Short

Poetry

Ukraine

9 October 2023 / 353

Ukraine is a bilingual poem in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock, inspired by Nie Wieder Krieg (Never Again War) by Karl Wiener (see above, Public Domain... Continue reading

Gabriel Rosenstock

Poetry

British History is Black: four poems from Jenny Mitchell

5 October 2023 / 472

Culture Matters is proud to commemorate Black History Month 2023 and mark National Poetry Day with the first of four new poems by the award-winning writer Jenny... Continue reading

Jenny Mitchell

Poetry

Peace for all those alive: Pablo Neruda on the 50th anniversary of his death

25 September 2023 / 312

Peace for all those alive: peace for all lands and all waters. ************** In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pablo Neruda describes his... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell