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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

When the well runs dry

17 September 2016 / 323

When The Well Runs Dry by Alan Dunnett I got to the piss-edge last nightsharp and painful like an infectionwith you below looking upfrom a hole in... Continue reading

Alan Dunnett

Poetry

‘A poem of objects that live by magic’: the poetry of Anna Mendelssohn

31 August 2016 / 591

Vicky Sparrow introduces the poetry of Anna Mendelssohn, imprisoned for her association with the Angry Brigade, and discusses how its ‘attentive concern’ rescues objects and people from... Continue reading

Vicky Sparrow

Poetry

Diptych of Drones: a Brechtian poem

7 June 2016 / 296

Diptych of Drones 1. Convenience Killing Over eight thousand miles awayfrom where the devastation wasa zap-happy, kapow-cowboyyeehah’d from his computer screen. A funeral party had diedin the... Continue reading

Jim Aitken

Poetry

Let the poet lift a hammer: the prophetic poetry of Fred Voss

12 May 2016 / 660

“I want to change the world, I want to strike the spark or kick the pebble that will start the fire or the avalanche that will change... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Poetry

I believe in the common man: an interview with Fred Voss

12 May 2016 / 634

When I asked Fred Voss if we could do an interview by email, little did I know what would happen. In response to my prosaic questions, he... Continue reading

Mike Quille

Poetry

A protest march

29 April 2016 / 324

A Protest March after the painting by L. S. Lowry, 1959 Get out of the road, dogs! They’re coming, marching but this lot aren’t from the... Continue reading

Catherine Graham

Poetry

Communism by way of the poem

26 April 2016 / 505

Alain Badiou writes about the links between poetry and communism, with particular reference to the poetry of the Spanish Civil War. In the last century, some truly... Continue reading

Alain Badiou

Poetry

The poetry of common ownership

4 April 2016 / 775

Alan Morrison, the editor of The Recusant and Militant Thistle websites, is preparing a series of articles for Culture Matters on the history of English political poetry.... Continue reading

Alan Morrison

Poetry

Aberfan and the Free Wales Army

28 February 2016 / 393

This year is the 50th anniversary of the Aberfan disaster. The injustices that the bereaved families of Aberfan had to deal with on top of their grief... Continue reading

Deborah Price

Poetry

A Poetics of Struggle: An Introduction to the Poetry of William Rowe

15 February 2016 / 344

Steve Willey introduces the ‘poetics of negative energy’ in two poems of William Rowe, the sound of pigs falling and index, published above. at the endof each... Continue reading

Steve Willey