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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

The Things Our Hands Once Stood For: Introduction and Review

3 August 2018 / 323

Alan Dent introduces and reviews the recent collection of poems about work by Martin Hayes. From Chaucer to the present day, hardly any poetry in English is... Continue reading

Alan Dent

Poetry

The Glass Collector

3 August 2018 / 301

Glass collector by Steve Pottinger Let us sing of the mouse-quiet collectorof glasses, clearer of plates, wiper of tables, he who returns sauce bottles to their allotted... Continue reading

Steve Pottinger

Poetry

They Trespass Against Us

31 July 2018 / 296

They Trespass Against Us by Rita Ann Higgins The memo said,get them out of that bed,Make Lazarus out of the lot of them.By the head or the... Continue reading

Rita Ann Higgins

Poetry

The Match

5 July 2018 / 306

The Match by Helen Burke Because ok lets face itLife is a match.You know it and I know it,And where you sit depends how it goes,And –... Continue reading

Helen Burke

Poetry

The Waterfall and the Song and the Hammer in the Hand

24 June 2018 / 289

The Waterfall and the Song and the Hammer in the Hand by Fred Voss Too many of the white machinists in this shop like Trumpthey are good... Continue reading

Fred Voss

Poetry

‘Of no court tyrants we’re afraid’: the literature of the United Irishmen

15 May 2018 / 309

Jenny Farrell introduces the literature of the United Irishmen, part of international and democratic liberation literature, expressing ideals which are still to be achieved. 24 May marks... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

‘Structures don’t take to the streets!’ May ’68: a structuralist riposte

25 April 2018 / 369

May ’68: a structuralist riposte by Chris Norris A cloud no bigger than a man’s hand crosses the English Channel from Paris, and then, in an instant,... Continue reading

Chris Norris

Poetry

The rich versus the people & Turn the other cheek

30 March 2018 / 329

The rich versus the people by Ira Lightman Some rich think they cleverly simmer us sleepy – cos we’d jump if it got too hot.The leaders their... Continue reading

Ira Lightman

Poetry

Those Hands

27 March 2018 / 334

Mike Jenkins offers a prose-poem inspired by Martin Hayes’ book of poetry ‘The things our hands once stood for’ Those Hands for Martin Hayes ... Continue reading

Mike Jenkins

Poetry

our mother’s day will come

11 March 2018 / 292

our mother’s day will come by Fran Lock my mother’s face exists in the space between kaijū and sphinx. she’s wearing clothes that holdher body in contempt.... Continue reading

Fran Lock