Our Publications

Our Publications (28)

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Saturday, 09 November 2019 14:15

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

Written by Mike Quille

in Our Publications

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

in Our Publications

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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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Thursday, 31 October 2019 08:58

The Folded Lie

in Our Publications

Written by Mike Quille

£8 plus £1.50 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…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 02 October 2019 11:11

Release a Rage of Red

in Our Publications

Written by Mike Quille

£5 plus £1.50 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…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Wednesday, 25 September 2019 10:22

Raptures and Captures

in Our Publications

Written by Mike Quille

£8 plus £1.50 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.…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 05 August 2019 11:33

Robots Have No Bones

in Our Publications

Written by Mike Quille

£10 (plus £1.50 p. and p.) ISBN: 978-1-912710-14-0 Robots Have No Bones is Fred Voss’s follow-up collection to The Earth and the Stars in the Palm of Your Hand, also published by Culture Matters. Robots in the workplace – computerized metalworking machinery – mean a loss of the tactile impact…

Thursday, 02 May 2019 15:26

The Trouble with Monsters

Written by Mike Quille

in Our Publications

£8 (plus £1.50 p. and p.) ISBN: 978-1-912710-12-6 Christopher Norris’s new collection of political poems take aim at some monsters of our present bad times, among them Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Theresa May, George Osborne, Benjamin Netanyahu, and assorted hangers-on. These politicians act as if they have said…

Thursday, 14 February 2019 16:21

From Aberfan t Grenfell

Written by Mike Quille

in Our Publications

£9 (plus £1.50 p. and p.) ISBN: 978-1-912710-08-9 From Aberfan t Grenfell shows that Mike Jenkins’s sublime skills in dialect poetry continue to shine as brightly as ever, as he evokes a bravura array of voices from his Merthyr bro. Using his work to give speech to people without power,…

Wednesday, 30 January 2019 17:29

Shabbigentile

Written by Mike Quille

in Our Publications

£9 (plus £1.50 p. and p.) ISBN: 978-1-912710-10-2 Alan Morrison’s Shabbigentile is a counterpoint to his Forward Prize-nominated Tan Raptures (Smokestack Books, 2017), many of its poems having been written during the same period and on complementary polemical themes. These range from the ominous economic stormclouds of the banking crash,…

Wednesday, 21 November 2018 13:36

Ruses and Fuses

Written by Mike Quille

in Our Publications

£8 (plus £1.50 p. and p.) ISBN 978-1-912710-09-6 Ruses and Fuses, by Fran Lock with collages by Steev Burgess, is the follow-up collection to Muses and Bruises. Fran Lock is one of the most prolific and outstanding poets out there today, fighting with her writing. Bristling with multi-bladed language and…