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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

Christ is a communist and God is a miner: ‘The Sair Road’ by William Hershaw

31 May 2019 / 445

Jim Aitken reviews The Sair Road, by Willie Hershaw. The header image and all others in this review are by Les McConnell, the illustrator Far from creating... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Poetry

Green Shadows

15 May 2019 / 326

Green Shadows by William Hershaw Poor old Johnny Clare!Driven mad by Society, protected by Poetry,Flapping like an owl, daftman on the roadBetween London and The Bluebell Inn.You’d... Continue reading

William Hershaw

Poetry

This poem has a title

14 May 2019 / 348

This Poem has a Title by Lisa Kelly This poem must take medication in order to be read at any future event. It has been found that... Continue reading

Lisa Kelly

Poetry

helpston

8 May 2019 / 316

helpston by Fran Lock the brazen head has spoken: heat. and now, the summerlifts its loaded pitchforks to the light. the pewit in the dog-whistle of its... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Mobilise the books! A review of Shabbigentile

1 May 2019 / 305

Andy Croft reviews Shabbigentile, by Alan Morrison. There is a long poem in Alan Morrison’s fantastic new collection Shabbigentile (Culture Matters, £9, available here) about the 1930s... Continue reading

Andy Croft

Poetry

Butcher’s Dozen: Bloody Sunday, 47 years on

14 March 2019 / 445

Jenny Farrell protests the decision only to charge one paratrooper, and introduces extracts from Thomas Kinsella’s poem, Butcher’s Dozen Shock and disbelief is the reaction of most... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

IWD 2019: Eighteen working women poets

8 March 2019 / 361

In honour of International Women’s Day, Jane Burn and Fran Lock present a free downloadable collection of poems from eighteen working women poets. IWWD_Eighteen_.pdf Continue reading

Fran Lock and Jane Burn

Poetry

where we got the importance of peas from

22 February 2019 / 322

where we got the importance of peas from by Martin Hayes there have always been jobs ever since we were able to stand upand grew handsthings to... Continue reading

Martin Hayes

Poetry

In praise of strangeness

21 February 2019 / 334

Fran Lock writes in praise of a working-class poetics that revels in richness and strangeness, and includes a strange and rich poem taken from her forthcoming collection... Continue reading

Fran Lock

Poetry

Shayari: the progressive power of Urdu poetry

24 January 2019 / 325

Shayari by Christopher Norris In a Delhi hockey stadium in December, about 100,000 people of various ages, genders, and classes flooded in for two days of poetry,... Continue reading

Chris Norris