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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

To A Different Country

6 November 2019 / 311

To A Different Country by Mike Jenkins We were selling ticketsfor a journey to a different country(our own, yet changed totally).At the station our flags flappedin a... Continue reading

Mike Jenkins

Poetry

Because There Is No Planet B

10 October 2019 / 297

Because There Is No Planet B by Sally Flint WE MARCH to the square, as if we might clear the atmosphere’s carbon overload by shouting: It’s not too... Continue reading

Sally Flint

Poetry

My Blood

10 October 2019 / 356

My blood by Sutputra Radheye poets are sleepingwith flowers in gardens across brothelswhen the rest of the city-crumbles like pieces of breadfalling in the fire of communalism.... Continue reading

Sutputra Radheye

Poetry

A Very Northern Inheritance

10 October 2019 / 266

A Very Northern Inheritance by Linda Burnett An agony of worker aunts passed martyrdom along the female line. Each rivulet of steam and sweat, reamed achingly from... Continue reading

Linda Burnett

Poetry

Canticle of the Sun: for the Feast of St. Francis

4 October 2019 / 360

Canticle of the Sun for the feast of St. Francis, 4 October by Fran Lock And what if we should feel like singing? Liftour undefended faces to... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Review: One of These Dead Places, by Jane Burn

19 September 2019 / 342

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

Poetry

Revolution

4 September 2019 / 293

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

Poetry

Peterloo: the socialist poetry of Shelley, Brecht and Kinsella

26 July 2019 / 379

In the run-up to the anniversary of Peterloo, Jenny Farrell discusses political poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Kinsella On 16 August 1819, tens... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Who is Bertolt Brecht? and Why We Should Care in our Dark Times

18 July 2019 / 367

Anthony Squiers outlines the contemporary relevance of Brecht, especially for artists who seek to produce meaningful works of art in our own dark times. On February 27, 1933... Continue reading

Anthony Squiers

Poetry

£77 per hour

24 June 2019 / 328

£77 per hour by Becky Bone nine thousand two hundred and fifty9250pounds per year (1 year = 20 weeks) four hundred and sixty two pounds and fifty... Continue reading

Becky Bone