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Wednesday, 29 July 2020 12:22

Sacred Symphony

Written by Mike Quille

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Sacred Symphony is a new collection of poems on life in inner-city Dublin by Karl Parkinson, with images by Peter O'Doherty, ISBN: 978-1-912710-33-1 It is introduced by Father Peter McVerry, who writes this in the Introduction: Those who are economically unproductive are considered a drain on the economy, undeserving of…

Monday, 15 June 2020 09:35

A Kist of Thistles

Written by Mike Quille

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A Kist of Thistles: An anthology of radical poetry from contemporary Scotland, edited by Jim Aitken, with images by Fiona Stewart. 196 pps. ISBN: 978-1-912710-32-4 A Kist of Thistles is a new anthology of radical Scottish poetry. It is edited and introduced by Jim Aitken, an Edinburgh-based writer and lecturer,…

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Almarks

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Written by Jim Mainland

Almarks: an Anthology of Radical Poetry from Shetland edited by Jim Mainland and Mark Ryan Smith, with images by Michael Peterson ISBN: 978-1-912710-20-1 What is radical poetry? And can it change anything? The poems in ‘Almarks’ are radical in different ways. Some are explicitly political in content, while others are…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:42

Onward / Ymlaen!

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Written by Mike Quille

Onward / Ymlaen! An anthology of radical poetry from contemporary Wales 170 pps., edited by Mike Jenkins, with a Foreword from Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of PCS, and with images by Gustavius Payne, £10 plus £3 p. and p. ISBN: 978-1-912710-16-4 This new and unique anthology has poetry in both…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Tuesday, 11 February 2020 16:31

Witches, Warriors, Workers

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Written by Fran Lock and Jane Burn

Witches, Warriors, Workers: An anthology of contemporary working women’s poetry, 192pps., £9 plus £3 p. and p. ISBN: 978-1-912710-19-5 This new anthology focuses on themes which reflect the texture and preoccupations of working women in contemporary Britain. There are 65 contributors of all ages, working across a variety of poetic…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Saturday, 09 November 2019 14:15

The Children of the Nation: An Anthology of Working People’s Poetry from Contemporary Ireland

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Written by Mike Quille

The Children of the Nation: 203pps., £9 plus £3 p. and p. or €10 plus €5 p. and p. ISBN: 978-1-912710-25-6 This is a unique anthology of poetry in both Irish and English by Irish working-class writers from the thirty-two counties of Ireland. There are sixty-seven contributors, women and men,…

Friday, 01 November 2019 11:11

arise! filmpoem

Written by Mike Quille

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Culture Matters has produced a short film, made by Carl Joyce, of the poem arise! by Paul Summers, sponsored by the Durham Miners' Association. You can watch the film for free on Vimeo here or on Youtube here. The film invokes the collective and co-operative spirit of past generations of…

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Thursday, 31 October 2019 08:58

The Folded Lie

Written by Mike Quille

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£7 plus £3 p.and p. ISBN: 978-1-912710-24-9 In September 1939, W. H. Auden wrote these words: All I have is a voiceTo undo the folded lie 80 years later, another politically conscious and technically skilful poet rises to the challenge of ‘unfolding the lie’, as Christopher Norris’s eloquent and combative…

Wednesday, 02 October 2019 11:11

Release a Rage of Red

Written by Mike Quille

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£5 plus £3.00 p. and p. ISBN: 978-1-912710-21-8 Release a Rage of Red is a selection of entries to the Bread & Roses Poetry Award 2019, sponsored by Unite. Every year it becomes more of a challenge to judge these poems. This year, there was a large number of beautifully…

Wednesday, 25 September 2019 10:22

Raptures and Captures

Written by Mike Quille

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£7 plus £3.00 p. and p. ISBN: 978-1-912710-18-8 Raptures and Captures follows on from Muses and Bruises and Ruses and Fuses, both published by Culture Matters. It is inspired by liberation theology and a fascination with the continuing relevance of the lives of the saints to a radical, liberating politics.…