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The three wise monkeys: rich, powerful and extremely alert......

Thursday, 07 November 2024 18:40

The three wise monkeys: rich, powerful and extremely alert......

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...except to the cry of the poor.

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Amir Darwish is a poet, born in Syria and now living on Teeside. His poetry has been published in the USA, Pakistan, Finland, Morocco and Mexico, and he is a graduate of Teesside University and the University of Durham.

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- Cultural beheading: art from Syrian refugees
Owain Holland

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Owain Holland is an environmental worker in Cornwall, a shop steward and trade union activist and a member of the Cornish language community.

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- The Profit Motive
Muhanned Mohamed Khorshid

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Muhanned Mohamed Khorshid is an Iraqi born artist and writer, living and working in Helsinki.

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- Short Story: Ark of Salvation
Deirdre ONeill

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Deirdre O'Neill is a film educator and writer.

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- Building a dissident film culture
Tony McKenna

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Tony McKenna is a writer, his latest book is 'Angels and Demons: A Radical Anthology of Political Lives' (Zero Books).

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- Shakespeare’s Tempest and Capitalism: The Storm of History
Phil Mellows

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Phil Mellows is a freelance journalist who has been writing about pubs and brewing for more than 30 years.

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- Pubs: a cultural space where you can just be
Len Phelan

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- Art of Solidarity
Peter Frost

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Peter Frost is a journalist for the Morning Star.

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- Lenin didn't have Facebook and never watched the telly
Tara Hanks

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Tara Hanks writes about aspects of popular culture for a variety of websites and publications.

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- Reframing the Keeler Affair: Women, Class and Dear Christine
Reuben Bard-Rosenberg

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Reuben spent four years putting on radical folk gigs up and down the country, and likes socialism.

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- Badass Jewish women: Chanukah Lewinsky, 120 Years from Grodno
Annette Skade

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Annette Skade is from Manchester and now lives in Ireland.
She has just completed a PhD on the poetry of Anne Carson at Dublin
City University, and her poetry has been published in Ireland, the U.K., the U.S. and Australia.

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- “the poor core of the world, wide open”: The poetry of Anne Carson
Michael Roberts

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Michael Roberts is Festival Producer of the Cornwall Film Festival.

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- The Crowd Strikes Out
Nathan Akehurst

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Nathan Akehurst is a socialist activist and freelance writer, working in campaigns and communications.

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- Take back control: inspiring revolutionary architecture from 1917 Russia.....and 2017 London
Ross Bradshaw

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Ross Bradshaw runs the radical Five Leaves Bookshop in Nottingham.

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- Wonderland
Martin Hayes

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Martin Hayes has worked in the courier industry for 30 years. His latest collection is The Things Our Hands Once Stood For, published by Culture Matters.

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- The Policy Unit, Westminster
Tom Walker

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Tom Walker is Production Editor at Red Pepper.

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- A people's algorithm? Facebook and the rise of surveillance capitalism
Martin Gollan

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Martin Gollan paints but also works with print and video. He recently has been working with local charities and their beneficiaries to dynamically illustrate the impacts of austerity and welfare reform.

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- Schrödinger's Tories: May council elections
Razia Parveen

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Razia Parveen has a Phd in Postcolonialism, Culture and Identity. She is a supply teacher and an independent researcher in all matters regarding BAME identity, cultures and living in diaspora, and is the author of Recipes and Songs.

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- The wrath and love of the oppressed: The Book of Echoes by Rosanna Amaka
Salena Godden

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Salena Godden has been described as ‘The doyenne of the spoken word scene’ (Ian McMillan, BBC Radio 3’s The Verb); ‘The Mae West madam of the salon’ (The Sunday Times) and as ‘everything the Daily Mail is terrified of’ (Kerrang! Magazine). She is also the lead singer and lyricist of SaltPeter, alongside composer Peter Coyte.

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- A Strong and Stiffly Worded Letter Should Do the Trick
Keith Armstrong

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Keith Armstrong has worked as a community worker, librarian, publisher and poet, and has performed his poetry throughout the world.

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- The Divided Self: a poem for Burns Night
Scott McLemee

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Scott McLemee is a critic and essayist living in the United States who writes for a variety of cultural and political journals.

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- 200 years young
Stephanie McMillan

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Stephanie McMillan is an artist, cartoonist, communist organiser and cultural activist. See http://stephaniemcmillan.org

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- The American Ruling Class
Adam Shehada

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Adam Shehada is a hyperrealistic pencil artist based in Gaza.

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- Al Nakba: Disaster
Sanjiv Sachdev

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Sanjiv Sachdev is a Senior Lecturer at the University of West London. Formerly a trade union research officer, one of his interests is political art.

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- Photos of a divided society
Robb Johnson

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- Stop consuming and do it yourself
Gerry Rowe

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Gerry Rowe is a writer, disgruntled minor functionary, and a Labour councillor in Chepstow.

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- The Death of Stalin
Mollie Brown

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Mollie Brown is an activist, student and mother, and an Associate Editor of Culture Matters.

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- The Bread and Roses Songwriting and Spoken Word Award 2020
Helen Pheby

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Helen Pheby is Senior Curator of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Cultural Fellow at York St. John University, and was an advisor to the Arts Council Collection 2016-17.

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- Yes we can! The role of artists and art galleries in changing the world
Jack Brindelli

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Jack Brindelli is a journalist and critic living and working in Amsterdam.

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- The Nightmare Before Christmas
Sam Swann

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Sam Swann is an actor and sits on Equity's Young Members Committee.

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- Theatre for the many, not the few
Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

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Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee is a poet, writer, occasional translator and political science scholar. He teaches poetry at Ambedkar University, New Delhi.

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- Staring Back
Caroline Ritchie

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie is a poet and researcher living in London. She is currently completing a PhD on the poetry and art of William Blake.

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- The radical imagery of William Blake
Darren Pih

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- Tracey Emin meets William Blake
Michael Rosen

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Michael Rosen is a freelance writer, teacher, journalist, performer and broadcaster. He supports Arsenal Football Club.

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- Whitechapel
Jack Newsinger

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Jack Newsinger is Assistant Professor in Cultural Industries and Media at Notts. Uni.

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- After the pandemic, culture should not be the same again
Shana Redmond

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Shana L. Redmond is a public-facing intellectual and activist who has written for media outlets including National Public Radio (USA) and BBC 3. She is Professor of Musicology at the University of California-Los Angeles.

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- Singing new forms of escape: Paul Robeson's afterlife in a U.S. prison
Rita Ann Higgins

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Rita Ann Higgins is a Galway-based poet and playwright. She has published ten books of poetry.

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- The Holding Pen
Kate Potts

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Kate Potts is website and marketing manager for radical independent publisher Lawrence and Wishart.

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- 'I am a human and I will be seen': the anti-imperialist power of the photographic image
Sheree Mack

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Dr. Sheree Mack is a writer and artist, with expertise in Black British Women's Poetry. She's currently working on a creative non-fiction novel as well as a poetry collection about Rewilding.

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- Black History Month: Darkling, by Sheree Mack
John Giddins

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John Giddins is a retired teacher, lecturer and UCU official.

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- Uplifting, stunning and powerful: The Ballad of Johnny Longstaff
Mina Boromand & Chris Bird

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Mina Boromand and Chris Bird create art and cartoons for 'The Morning Star' newspaper and trade union pubIications, hoping to connect political action to creativity and imagination. They have organised exhibitions and displays at the Marx Memorial Library and other events such as the annual Red Star conference.

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- Free all political prisoners
Fred Voss

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Fred Voss, a machinist for 35 years, has had three collections of poetry published by Bloodaxe Books, and two by Culture Matters: The Earth and the Stars in the Palm of Our Hand, and Robots Have No Bones. His latest book is Someday There Will Be Machine Shops Full of Roses and is available from Smokestack Books.

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- Tombstones and Toolboxes
Anthony D. Padgett

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Anthony Padgett is an award winning writer and artist and a North West Representative for the Artists' Union England.

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- Universal Basic Income, Artificial Intelligence and the Arts
Dave Lordan

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Dave Lordan is a Dublin-based working-class writer, educator, multimedia artist and activist. See www.davelordan.com

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- An artist's pledge to boycott Israel
Charlotte Dick

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Charlotte is studying Migration and Diaspora Studies at SOAS, London. She is currently researching The Sewell Report (2021), and wider UK race relations, through a radical intersectional feminist lens.

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- Civilising the feminist icon: Wonder Woman (2017)
Sally Flint

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Sally Flint lectures in creative writing and co-edits Riptide Journal at the University of Exeter, and is a tutor with The Poetry School.

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- Climate Matters
Nicholas Baldion

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Nicholas is a social realist artist whose work has been exhibited throughout the UK.

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- Portraits from the pandemic: Artists highlight the role of NHS workers
Alan Dent

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Alan Dent is the founder and editor of The Penniless Press and its successor MQB.

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- Place, personality and politics: the life and loves of D. H. Lawrence
Nadia Drews

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Nadia Drews is a playwright, director, poet and performer. Thirty years of repressed rhymes mean she writes long poems - but she reads them fast.

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- Like Mother
Francis Murphy

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Francis Murphy lives in Belfast, and is a lifelong campaigner for civil and human rights.

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- Belfast in 1969 and its aftermath: a memoir
Doc Ritchie

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Doc Ritchie is the founding editor of Comedy Studies Journal and the author of The Idler & Dandy In Stage Comedy and Performing Live Comedy.

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- AVzounds: Radical Speech & Radical Beats
Narbi Price

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Narbi Price is a painter. He was the Journal Culture Awards Visual Artist of the Year 2018, and the winner of the Contemporary British Painting Prize 2017.

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- Against the day
Paul Summers

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Paul Summers is a Northumbrian poet, performer and literary activist.

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- William Blake at the Bridge Hotel: Ten Newcastle Poets
Helen Burke

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Helen Burke is a poet and artist from Yorkshire.

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- The Match
Jan Woolf

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Jan Woolf is a playwright, writer and reviewer. Pic: Roelof Bakker.

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- Boris Britain Wallpaper
Sutputra Radheye

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Sutputra Radheye is a young Indian poet for whom poetry is a medium of protest against authority.

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- My Blood
Alan Dunnett

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Alan Dunnett is a poet, active union member and former theatre director who now works at Central Saint Martins, London. His poems have appeared in magazines and ezines including Dead Ink, The Recusant, Militant Thistles and Communist Review.

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- When the well runs dry
Becky Bone

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Becky Bone is a mature student, studying a Creative Writing and English BA at Birkbeck University. She works part-time with children as a creative arts facilitator.

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- £77 per hour
Michal Boncza

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- A History of the Many, not the Few
John Molyneux

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John Molyneux is a lifelong socialist activist and writer, a member of People Before Profit, and editor of the Irish Marxist Review. He is the author of many books on Marxist and socialist theory along with a number of studies in art history.

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- The Dialectics of Art
Ira Lightman

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Ira Lightman occasionally appears on BBC Radio 3's The Verb and is a professional proofreader and copyeditor who makes public art now and then.

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- The rich versus the people & Turn the other cheek
Adam Stoneman

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Adam Stoneman works in museum education. He has written for Jacobin, Open Democracy and Novara Media.

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- Disgraced Monuments
Steve Pottinger

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Steve Pottinger is a performance poet who's passionate about the power of poetry to create connections between people. He believes in making an audience laugh and think and decide that poetry isn't so bad after all.

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- first they came
Ciaran O Rourke

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Ciarán O'Rourke is a widely published Irish poet, living in Leitrim. His poetry appears in the Culture Matters anthology, Children of the Nation, and his first collection, The Buried Breath, is available here.

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- Gutsy, Punkish Sound-Bombs: On the Radicalism of Fontaines D.C.
Rafael Pizarro

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Rafael Pizarro is a retired trade unionist from New York City. He is a poet and an activist in the fight against the concentration camps for children in the U.S.

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- A Mother Stamps Her Feet
Jane Burn

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Jane Burn is a poet, based in North East England.

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- Bucephalus on a B Road
Tom Hubbard

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Tom Hubbard is a novelist, poet, and literary historian.

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- Sculptor
Graeme Rigby

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Graeme Rigby wrote a number of Side Gallery texts in the 1980s & 90s. He was a member of Amber film & photography collective from 1999 to 2018 and is currently chair of AmberSide Trust.

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- Photographs that sing: In memory of Chris Killip, 1946-2020
Moya Roddy

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Moya Roddy is a working-class writer from Dublin, who has written novels, short stories and poetry.

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- Poetic Justice
Friedrich Farshaad Razmjouie

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Friedrich Farshaad Razmjouie is a refugee from Iran, currently a student and living in Liverpool.

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- Break Free
Jim Mainland

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Jim Mainland is a graduate of Aberdeen University and until his recent retirement was Principal Teacher of English at Brae High School, Shetland.

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- Refugee
Gabriel Rosenstock

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Gabriel Rosenstock was born in postcolonial Ireland and is a poet, haikuist, tankaist, translator, playwright, novelist, short story writer and essayist.

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- Fortune Teller
S O Fasrus

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S. O. Fasrus is a published poet and has written articles for national newspapers and magazines. She's a social research interviewer and a social justice activist.

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- The Winning Cock
Rob Walton

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- The Buttering of the Bread
K. Satchidanandan

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K. Satchidanandan has 24 collections of poetry, 5 books of travel, a full length play, a collection of one-act plays, and many collections of critical essays including 5 books originally written in English on Indian literature.

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- Questions From The Dead
Mike Jenkins

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Mike Jenkins is an award-winning Welsh poet and author and unofficial poet for Cardiff City FC. His new book of political poetry, Nobody's Subject, is published in Summer 2016.

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- Whose Name?
Charlie Clutterbuck

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Charlie Clutterbuck Ph.D. was an Associate Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, and Honorary Fellow of the Centre for Food Policy at City University, London. He’s now Trustee of Incredible Farm, Todmorden, and of The Larder, Preston.

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- The future of breaking bread
Rod Stoneman

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Rod Stoneman was the director of the Huston School of Film & Digital Media at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was previously the CEO of the Irish Film Board and a deputy commissioning editor of the Independent Film and Video Department at Channel 4.

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- Public service broadcasting vs. competitive capitalist profit-making: the crisis at RTÉ
Lisa Kelly

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Lisa Kelly is a freelance journalist and co-Chair of Magma Poetry. Her first collection, 'A Map Towards Fluency' is published by Carcanet and was shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Poetry Prize 2021.

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- what if war were measured in baby teeth
Stuart Cartland

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Dr. Stuart Cartland is a teaching Fellow at Sussex uni.

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- From citizen to consumer: the growing corporatisation of public space
Martin Rowson

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Martin Rowson is a multi-award-winning cartoonist, writer and broadcaster. Photo: Fred Rowson.

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- If....
Linda Burnett

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Linda Burnett, born in West Yorkshire and a former teacher in Nottinghamshire, is a recent poet, who has had several of her poems published in anthologies.

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- A Very Northern Inheritance
Theresa Easton

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Theresa Easton is a political activist and an artist with a socially engaged practice.

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- Rethinking the kind of culture we want
Hamish Wilson

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Hamish runs The Garsdale Retreat, a residential creative writing centre in Cumbria, and is a regular open mic performer.

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- The Last Hurrah
Gregor Gall

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Gregor Gall is a Visiting Professor of Industrial Relations at the University of Leeds and an Affiliate Research Associate at the University of Glasgow. He is author and editor of over twenty books.

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- Radicalism, resistance and rebellion: The punk rock politics of Joe Strummer
Geraldine Clarkson

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Geraldine Clarkson is from the UK Midlands, with roots in the west of Ireland. Her work is featured in Witches, Warriors, Workers: An anthology of contemporary working women's poetry (Culture Matters, 2020), and her first full collection is Monica's Overcoat of Flesh (Nine Arches Press 2020).

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- Only use words if you have to: Homily of Francis
Bob Starrett

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Bob Starrett was the official cartoonist of the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-in of 1971-2.

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- Capitalism Always Wins
Rita Di Santo

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Rita di Santo is a film critic and reviewer.

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- An anti-war movie of compassion and kindness: a review of 'The Invasion' by Sergei Loznitsa
William Hershaw

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William Hershaw is a poet, playwright and folk musician. He is the founder and leader of the Bowhill Players, a group who perform the poems and songs of Cardenden miner writer Joe Corrie (1894 - 1968).

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- STRIKE by Sarah Wimbush
Lyndsey Ayre

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Lyndsey won New Writing North’s inaugural Sid Chaplin award for Working-Class Writers. She has an interest in challenging stereotypical perceptions of working-class communities and culture.

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- Narrow Streets: publishing and the class conundrum
Craig Campbell

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Craig Campbell is a freelance writer from Hartlepool.

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- Universal Credit
Gerda Stevenson

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Gerda Stevenson is an award-winning writer, actor, director, singer and songwriter. She has worked in theatre, TV, radio, film and opera.

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- Little Boy
Kevin Higgins

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The late Kevin Higgins was a Galway-based poet, essayist and reviewer.

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Karl Parkinson

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Karl Parkinson is a poet and novelist from north inner city Dublin. Photo: John Jordan

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- Georgie
Barry Smith

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Barry Smith is co-ordinator of the Festival of Chichester and director of the South Downs Poetry Festival. He is editor of Poetry & All That Jazz, and his poetry has appeared in Acumen, Agenda, Frogmore Papers and other journals.

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- The Masks of Anarchy
Sarah Wimbush

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Sarah Wimbush is the recipient of a Northern Writers’ Award. She recently released her prize-winning debut poetry pamphlet Bloodlines, available from Seren.

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- The Orgreave Stations
Camillus John

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Camillus John was bored and braised in Dublin. He has had work
published in The Stinging Fly, RTÉ Ten, The Lonely Crowd and other
such organs.

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- When Jeremy The Wicked Ruled His World
Owen Gallagher

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- Weekly Briefing
David Cromwell

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David Cromwell is a founder and editor of Media Lens

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- Take away their power: climate breakdown and the corporate media
Paul Dovey

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Paul Dovey is a trade unionist who sometimes gets angry and writes things. He strongly believes that the act of creativity itself is empowering and that working class culture should make its own space and use its own voice.

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- The myth of the self-made man
Paul Simon

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Paul Simon is a reviewer for the Morning Star.

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- A Hello to Arms
Chris McGachy

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Chris McGachy is an editor, journalist and photographer, and writes about working-class and social history.

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- The Beatle, the Bankie and the Bouquet
Robert J. Gallagher

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Robert Gallagher is a radio playwright and former soul music journalist for Melody Maker and Black Music magazine.

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- Rebelling against materialism and dullness: I Don’t Want To Go To The Taj Mahal, by Charlie Hill
Louisa Campbell

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Louisa Campbell has two published mental-health-related poetry pamphlets: The Happy Bus (Picaroon Poetry, 2017), and The Ward (Paper Swans Press, 2018). Beautiful Nowhere will be published in May 2021 by Boatwhistle Books.

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- It’s hard to say ‘I love you’ to a Tory
Rebecca Samura

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Rebecca Samura is a mixed media artist and poet.

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- Shopping Centre
Ben Lunn

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Ben Lunn is a composer, music critic, trade union activist, and helped found the Disabled Artist Network, an organisation which is bridging the gap between the professional world and disabled artists. He also has a monthly column in The Morning Star.

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- Grup Yorum - On the Move
David Edwards

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- The media and Gaza: 'A textbook case of genocide'
David Erdos

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David Erdos is an actor, writer, director with over 300 professional credits. He is a published poet, playwright, essayist and illustrator. He has lectured on all disciplines in theatre and film for leading performing arts colleges, schools and universities around the world.

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- The Immigrant In The Room - And On The Street
Laura Taylor

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Laura Taylor has been writing and performing poetry for over 10 years. She has 3 books published by Flapjack Press, and can be found on Facebook here.

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- From A Distance
Tim Hollins

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Tim Hollins is a musician, educator and cultural activist.

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- El Sueño Existe: The spirit of Victor Jara lives on in Wales
Caoimhghin O Croidheain

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Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin is an Irish artist, lecturer and writer.

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- Becoming the Backdrop: The Oppression of Native Americans in Hollywood cinema, and 'Killers of the Flower Moon'
Jenny Mitchell

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Jenny Mitchell is currently the Inaugural Poet-in-the-Community at the British Library, working with the Engagement Team. She’s recently been nominated as Best of the Net 2025, won the Ink, Sweat and Tears May 2024 Poetry Competition, the Shooter Poetry Competition in 2023, the Gregory O’Donoghue Prize in 2022 and the Poetry Book Awards in 2021 for her second collection, Map of a Plantation. The prize-winning debut collection, Her Lost Language, is one of 44 Poetry Books for 2019 (Poetry Wales), and her latest collection, Resurrection of a Black Man, contains three prize-winning poems and is featured on the US podcast Poetry Unbound. She was Poet-in-Residence at Sussex University in 2024, and Artist in Association at Birkbeck from 2021-22.

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- Two poems for students, by Jenny Mitchell
Chris Nash

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Chris Nash writes international ‘poetry without borders’ and is now working on a collection of ‘songs’ for species threatened by extinction called ‘Is this Goodbye?’. See www.chrisnashpoetry.com.

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- Christ tries to enter Global Britain, Easter 2022
Leah Fleetwood

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Leah Fleetwood is a poet and editor, living in Sheffield.

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- Amnesia of the Asylum-seeker
Malcolm Llywelyn

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Malcolm Llywelyn is a published writer and historian, see malcolmgartref.wordpress.com

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- Harri Webb and Merthyr Tydfil
Samantha Mansi

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Samantha Mansi is a poet and currently writing her first book. She does open mic poetry in Swansea and is studying for her Masters degree in creative writing at the Open University. She enjoys going to open mics and expressing herself through poetry.

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Ben Harker

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Ben Harker is a Senior Lecturer in 20th Century Literature at Manchester University and Chair of the Raymond Williams Society

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- The chronology of revolution: Communism, culture, and civil society in 20th century Britain
Mick O Sullivan

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Mick is a writer and editor, based in Durham.

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- Run on the food bank
Ceinwen Haydon

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Ceinwen Haydon writes short stories and poetry, and has been widely published in web magazines and in print anthologies. She believes everyone’s voice counts.

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- School Trip
Alan Sleater

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Alan Sleater is a retired English teacher, and has lived in Galashiels since 1984.

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- The Apple Tree
Tony Webb

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Tony Webb is a poet and singer-songwriter, based in Swansea, Wales. Brought up by his Communist grandparents on the East Side of Swansea, his values were forged in a hotbed of socialist debate. These working-class roots continue to imbue his writing with a heady mix of the personal and political.

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Christopher Norris

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Christopher Norris is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cardiff. He is the author of more than thirty books on aspects of philosophy, politics, literature, the history of ideas, and music.

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- Whose Bad Books?
Annie Wright

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Annie Wright is a founding member of Vane Women, the writing, performing and publishing collective based in northeast England. She runs poetry workshops in southwest Scotland and edits for several presses including Vane Women Press.

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- Whose Son Next?
Yanis Iqbal

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Yanis Iqbal is a student and freelance writer based in Aligarh, India.

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- Capitalism and Death
Caroline Maldonado

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Caroline Maldonado is a poet and translator, of Isabella (2019 Smokestack Books) and Liminal (2020 Smokestack Books). The Creek Men and Faultlines, are both forthcoming with Knives Forks and Spoons Press.

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- Nadir: Poems about migrant children
Claudia Court

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Claudia Court has had work published in a number of magazines and anthologies. Her second book, School Milk, was published in March by Dempsey and Windle.

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Harriet Jae

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Harriet Jae has worked with refugees and as editor of a refugee agency's flagship publication. She has been published in The Rialto, Mslexia, The Ofi Press, Ink Sweat & Tears and Words for the Wild.

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Edward Boyne

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Edward Boyne was born in Bride St in inner city Dublin. He is a political activist, psychotherapist and writer.

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- Meeting the Irish
RIP Lux

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RIP Lux is a rapper from the former Yugoslavia

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Nick Moss

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Nick Moss is an ex-prisoner, published poet, reviewer and playwright. His book "Swear Down" is published by Smokestack Books, see here.

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Pete Godfrey

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Pete Godfrey is a writer and journalist based in the Hebrides. His first poetry collection, Grace Note, is published by Smokestack Books.

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Alexis Lykiard

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Alexis Lykiard was born in Athens. His books include 9 novels, translations from French, 2 memoirs of Jean Rhys, and numerous poetry collections – most recently Schooled For Life (Shoestring 2016). His website is www. alexislykiard.com

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David Douglass

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David John Douglass is a writer, historian and political activist in Tyneside and Yorkshire.

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Ruth Valentine

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Ruth is a campaigner on refugee and migrant issues. Her latest collection, If You Want Thunder, is out from Smokestack in July 2021.

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Pamela Thomas

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Pamela Thomas works in Learning and Development for a telecommunications company. She is a new poet who loves to observe the world around her, and write about what she sees and feels.

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Sarah Barrington

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Sarah Barrington did a stint as a drug worker, worked for ten years in IT, wrote songs and sang in a band and has given birth to three bright and beautiful children. She has been writing poetry and prose for forty years but has only recently ventured to share it.

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Antoniy T. Georgiev

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Antoniy T. Georgiev holds an MA in Contemporary History and Politics from Birkbeck, University of London. Currently he teaches English at an English Academy in China, and writes poetry and fiction.

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Stephen Gargan

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Stephen Gargan is a founder member and currently project co-ordinator of the Derry-based cultural education company, Gaslight Media Trust, whose work is focused on conflict transformation.

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Robert Yates

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Robert Yates's poems have been published in the Morning Star, Abraxas Agenda Broadsheet and the International Times website. His most recent collection Nihilistic City Nights was published in 2020 by London Poetry Books.

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Alun Rees

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Alun Rees is a long-time Red Poet, living in Wales.

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Cheryl Vail

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Cheryl Vail, originally from New Jersey but now calling Dublin home, is a software product manager by day, and has been writing since she could scribble on any available surface.

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Emma Lee

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Emma Lee’s publications include “The Significance of a Dress” (Arachne, 2020) and "Ghosts in the Desert" (IDP, 2015). She co-edited “Over Land, Over Sea,” (Five Leaves, 2015), was Reviews Editor for The Blue Nib, and reviews for magazines and blogs.

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Cathy Dreyer

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Cathy Dreyer is a poet and critic who lives in Oxfordshire

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Mick Drury

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Mick Drury is a semi-retired forest ecologist and environmental activist

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Paul Francis

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Paul Francis is a retired teacher, living in Much Wenlock, who's
active in the West Midlands poetry scene. His website is
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Julie Easley

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Julie Easley is a widely published working-class poet, a Tees Women Poet, and host of DiVerse poetry.

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Catherine Harkness

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Catherine Harkness is a retired GP and a volunteer for a local refugee charity.

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Sven Kretzschmar

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Joseph Horgan

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Joseph Horgan grew up in Birmingham of Irish immigrant parents. He is a poet, writer, and journalist and is the author of seven books. He lives in Co Cork.

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Rip Bulkeley

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Rip Bulkeley recently edited Rebel Talk: poems from the climate emergency, which is published by Extinction Rebellion Oxford and can be ordered from all good bookshops.

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Scott Alsworth

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Scott Alsworth is a video game developer, political activist, and reviewer for the Morning Star. He lives in Norfolk and manages a co-development studio.

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Mark Cassidy

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Mark Cassidy is an almost retired radiographer now living in Bury St Edmunds. He writes in the gaps between family, birdwatching, and Oxfam books.

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Niels Hav

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Niels Hav is a Danish poet and short story writer, the author of seven collections of poetry and three books of short fiction.

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Bob Beagrie

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Bob Beagrie is a poet, playwright, publisher and lecturer. Photo courtesy of Kev Howard.

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JP Seabright

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JP Seabright is a queer writer (she/they) living in London, with poetry, short stories and experimental work published online and in print. Their debut poetry pamphlet, an experimental conceptual work, Fragments from Before the Fall: An Anthology in Post-Anthropocene Poetry is published by Beir Bua Press.

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Declan Geraghty

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Declan Geraghty is a writer and poet from Dublin, with poetry published in “The Brown Envelope” and “The Cry of the Poor” anthologies.

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James Crossley and Robert J. Myles

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- From Millenarianism to Dictatorship of God: The Radical Ideology of the Early Jesus Movement
John Freeman

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John Freeman’s poems have been widely published in magazines and anthologies and in twelve collections, of which the latest is Plato’s Peach (Worple Press, 2021). He lives in south Wales.

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Steven Taylor

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Steven Taylor lives in London. His poems have appeared in a range of publications and he was one of the winners of this year's Culture Matters Bread and Roses Competition.

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Helen Bovaird Ryan

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Helen taught Creative Writing for seventeen years at a FE college and to community groups. She currently facilitates writing workshops.

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Amy K Grandvoinet

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Amy K Grandvoinet is currently trying to complete at PhD in literary psychogeographies at Aberystwyth University

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Brett Gregory

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Brett Gregory is an independent screenwriter, director and producer based in Manchester (UK).

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Michael Eaude

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Michael Eaude is a radical Spanish novelist, newspaper columnist and cultural commentator.

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Geoff Sawers

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Geoff Sawers is a writer and artist. He is bored of just getting short-listed for things. Always the bridesmaid, never the sea monster.

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- Class, gender and authority: the life and work of Dorothy Edwards
Angus Reid

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Angus Reid is the Arts Editor for the Morning Star

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Sunil Sharma

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Sunil Sharma has published 25 creative and critical books, jointly and solo. He edits the monthly Setu journal, and see also his website.

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Dermot Foster

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Dermot Foster lives in Oldham and recently retired from teaching in Further Education, in colleges, communities, mental health facilities, and HMP Manchester.

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Ron Brown

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Ron Brown is an activist, teacher and musician. He works with the Musicians’ Union, Newcastle Unites, Newcastle Trades Council, The Othergen and Tyne and Wear Mayday committee.

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Lya Vollering

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Lya Vollering is a contemplative gardener, artist and activist. She is interested in the connection between social justice and environmental justice.

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Dee Allen

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Dee is an African-Italian performance poet and author based in Oakland, California U.S.A. Photo by Bill Carpenter.

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Daniel Bowry

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Danny B the Rapper is a rapper, songwriter and producer from Islington in North London.

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Harry Gallagher

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Harry Gallagher’s poetry has had several books and pamphlets published, and his next full collection - ‘there is an england’ - is imminent from Stairwell Books.

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Jon Baldwin

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Jon Baldwin is Senior Lecturer in Film and Digital Media at London Metropolitan University. He recently edited a film/tv special edition of the Journal of Class and Culture."

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Michal Lowkain

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Michal Lowkain is a Dubliner since 2006. He is one of the winners of the Bread and Roses Award 2023 and his poems are included in the 2019 Culture Matters’ anthology Children of the Nation.

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Phil Knight

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Phil Knight is a poet and political activist from Neath, South Wales.

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Carol King

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Carol King lives and works in Edinburgh, where she is nanny to two lovely grandchildren. She attends the Royston and Wardieburn Writing Group and was one of three runners up for Woman and Home’s short story competition a wee while ago.

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P. W. Bridgman

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P.W. Bridgman's fifth book, Deliverance, 1961: A Novella in Thirty-Two Cantos, is forthcoming from Pooka Press in later 2023.

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Janet Sillett

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Janet is a socialist who has had poems and short fiction published in a wide variety of magazines and online. She's a secular anti-zionist Jew.

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Terry Eagleton

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Terry Eagleton is an English literary theorist, critic, and public intellectual.

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Charlie Hill

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Charlie Hill is a writer from Birmingham. His poetry has appeared in Under the Radar, and he was a regular contributor to Prole.

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Alan McGuire

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Alan McGuire is a former mental health nurse from Swindon. He currently lives in Madrid teaching English.

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Ruth Aylett

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Ruth Aylett lives and works in Edinburgh and has been a political and trade union activist since her teens.

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John Short

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John Short lives near Liverpool again after a previous life in southern Europe. He's appeared in places like Pennine Platform, London Grip and The High Window. His last full collection is Those Ghosts (Beaten Track 2021).

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Jon Baldwin and Brett Gregory

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- Poverty, Class and Education: A report from the Alliance of Working-Class Academics' Conference, 2024
Dakota Pollock

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Dakota Pollock is a Jew raised by Mexican mothers in the Sonoran Desert

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Jack Caradoc

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Jack Caradoc is the editor of Dreich.

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Patrick Druggan

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Patrick grew up in the East End of Glasgow, with a free education paid for by the people of this country. He designs devices for detecting cancer.

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Wayne Dean-Richards

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Wayne Dean-Richards’ short fiction has appeared in many UK and US magazines and anthologies, and Money & Blood has just been published by Culture Matters.

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Torivio Fodder

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Torivio is Indigenous Governance Program Manager and Professor of Practice, University of Arizona

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Benjamin Zephaniah

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Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah was a British writer, dub poet, actor, musician and professor of poetry and creative writing.

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Liz McPherson

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Liz McPherson lives in West Yorkshire and works for an educational charity in inner city Bradford.

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Chad McCail

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Chad McCail is a printmaker, painter and sculptor who envisages post-capitalist futures.

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- Hopes and Fears: the people's struggle against a tiny, wealthy minority
Mark Griffiths

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Mark Griggiths is a proud father of two, pulled up in the east now plugging away in the west, sometime poet and diy artist in indomitable search for green social justice and a long overdue republic.

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Kevin McCann

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Kevin McCann has published poetry, fantasy stories and a novel aimed at children.

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I. L. Literate

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Roy McFarlane

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Roy McFarlane is a poet, playwright and former youth & community worker, the National Canal Laureate, a former Birmingham Poet Laureate and one of the Bards of Brum performing in the Opening Ceremony for Birmingham Commonwealth Games 2022. His third collection Living by Troubled Waters (Nine Arches Press 2022) is out now.

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- Rhythm and rhyme, wrapped in a smile, chanting the struggles of the working class: Benjamin Zephaniah 1958-2023
James O Brien

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James O'Brien is an award-winning playwright, poet, filmmaker and political activist. He was made an Honorary Member of the N.U.M. during the Miners Strike, 1984-5. He was the PCS Branch Secretary at Tate Modern 2000-16 and led a series of strikes against austerity and attacks on workers' rights and pay.

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Anne Irwin

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Anne Irwin lives in Galway, Ireland. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals including Poetry Ireland Review, A New Ulster, ROPEs, Skylight 47, Poetry Bus, and Irish Left Review.

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Bernie Crawford

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Bernie Crawford’s poetry has been published in Irish and international journals. Her first collection Living Water was published by Chaffinch Press (2021). She is co-editor of the poetry magazine Skylight 47.

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Matt Alford

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Dr. Matt Alford is a Lecturer in Politics, Languages and International Studies at the University of Bath. You can find him on YouTube at @DrMatthewAlford

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Rebecca Hillman

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Dr. Hillman is a senior lecturer at the University of Exeter.

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- Banner Theatre: Working-class culture for a change!
Steven Hughes

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Steven Hughes is an independent scholar who is currently based in West London.

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Ben Banyard

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Ben Banyard lives in Portishead, on the North Somerset coast. His three collections to date are Communing (Indigo Dreams, 2016), We Are All Lucky (Indigo Dreams, 2018) and Hi-Viz (Yaffle Press, 2021). Ben edits Black Nore Review and blogs here.

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Neil Campbell

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Neil Campbell is from Manchester, England, and his latest book is Licensed Premises.

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Richard Penderyn

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Richard Penderyn is a heritage professional in Wales. He has worked in national heritage organisations in the UK and Europe and has a specific interest in archaeology.

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- Cultural heritage and cultural democracy
John Pateman

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John Pateman worked in public libraries for over 40 years and was the Head of Libraries in Hackney, Merton, Lincolnshire and Thunder Bay (Ontario, Canada). He is the author of several books including Public Libraries and Social Justice and Public Libraries and Marxism.

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Chrys Salt

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Chrys has authored eight poetry collections and has performed her work across the UK and Europe, India, Australia, Yukon and Africa.

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Chrissie Roberts

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Chrissie is a community activist with many years’ experience in trade union activism and health campaigning in the voluntary sector.

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Mario Relich

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Dr Mario Relich is a poet, academic, Secretary of the Scottish Poetry Association, and member of the Executive Committee of Scottish PEN.

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Julian Bishop

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Julian Bishop is a former environment journalist turned poet. His first collection of eco poems called We Saw It All Happen was published in 2023 by Fly On The Wall Press.

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Charlie Weinberg

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Charlie is a freelance therapeutic group worker currently in therapy training, with many years experience working and writing across arts, education and criminal justice. I've been writing and performing poetry for decades.

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Janet Hatherley

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Janet Hatherley is a London poet. Her debut pamphlet, What Rita Tells Me, was published in May 2022 (Dempsey & Windle).

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Alastair McIntosh

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Alastair McIntosh is a Scottish writer, academic and activist, involved with Scottish land reform especially on Eigg, and campaigned successfully against the Harris superquarry in Lingerbay. He is a Quaker, an honorary senior research fellow (honorary professor) in the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, and a founding trustee of the GalGael Trust.

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Stuart McFarlane

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Stuart McFarlane taught English for many years to asylum seekers in London. He has had poems published in a few online journals.

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Jack Clarke

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Jack Clarke is an award-winning, independent film producer who lives in Salford. He can be contacted via his email jack@seriousfeather.com or his X/Twitter account @ClarkeJ98.

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- 'A powerful political statement about the betrayal of the working class': Review of 'The School on Seaside Lane'
Philip Berry

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Philip Berry is a practising NHS hospital doctor and writer.

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Mark A. Murphy

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Mark A. Murphy is a self-educated, neurodivergent poet from a poor working class background.

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Stephen Paul Wren

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Stephen Paul Wren is a senior lecturer in pharmaceutical chemistry, with many published poetry collections to his name.

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Alan McCormick

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Alan McCormick lives in Wicklow. His recent writing is in The Lonely Crowd, Banshee, The Stinging Fly, Southword, Sonder and Exacting Clam.

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Vivien Freeman

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Vivien Freeman has taught Creative Writing and is a published novelist and poet.

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Ruth McCann

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Ruth McCann is a bookbinder based in Newcastle.

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- 'Everyone is an artist': but how good is the access of women to culture?
Peter Devonald

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Peter Devonald won the Waltham Forest Poetry Prize in 2022, and has won many other poetry prizes.

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- 'Green and Pleasant Land' and 'Algorithms of Rage'
John Wight

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John Wight writes for the Morning Star.

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Simon Haines

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Simon's poems have been published by Poetry Wivenhoe, Suffolk Poetry Society and The Morning Star.

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Sam Friedman

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Sam Friedman writes poetry about the current crises of humanity and our culture, and how to survive them. He lives in New Jersey, USA.

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Jo Colley

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Jo Colley is a writer, poet and artist with an interest in the visual representation of text.

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Jade Welburn

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Jade Welburn is a northern lass, based in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is an aspiring poet, working in the Civil Service, full time dreamer and communist.

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Mike Huett

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Mike Huett's work has appeared in numerous publications including Madrigal Press, The Martello Journal, Sein und Werden, Flight of the Dragonfly, and most recently, Ink Sweat & Tears.

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Alexander Kindness

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Alexander Kindness

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Attracta Fahy

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Attracta Fahy is a Galway poet, a country girl from a farming background, now a nurse and psychotherapist with a Masters in Creative Writing. She has been widely published and was winner of Trócaire Poetry Ireland Competition 2021, Irish Times; New Irish Writing 2019, & was placed 3rd in Allingham Poetry ’23.

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Arran Potts

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Arran Potts is a teacher from Wolverhampton, UK, and is a member of the 'Herding Cats' writer's group for 3 years now.

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Lydia Unsworth

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Lydia Unsworth is a poet based in Greater Manchester, whose recent collections include Mortar (Osmosis), These Steady Bulbs (above / ground) and cement, terraces (Red Ceilings). Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies including Abridged, Banshee, bath magg, Berlin Lite, Oxford Poetry, Pamenar, Perverse, Salzburg Review and Shearsman Magazine.

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Farid Bitar

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Brian Harman

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Brian Harman is a dad, poet, and editor living in Southern California. His work has appeared in Chiron Review, Shō Poetry Journal, Misfit Magazine, Nerve Cowboy, and elsewhere. He is the author of Suddenly, All Hell Broke Loose!!! through Picture Show Press.

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Barbara Barnes

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Barbara Barnes' poems have been widely published and her debut collection, Hound Mouth was published to huge acclaim by Live Canon. She has had a wide-ranging career as an actress and voiceover artist in Canada, the US and the UK.

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Kathleen Wenaden

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I am poet of Sri Lankan heritage, currently living in Wivenhoe, Essex and I describe myself as mother, medic, pilgrim, poet.

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Jennifer Johnson

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Jennifer Johnson has been widely published in poetry magazines (including Stand and Acumen) and anthologies. In 2022 she won a Bread and Roses award for a poem in 'The Shouting Tories' (Culture Matters).

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Marilyn Longstaff

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Marilyn Longstaff lives in Darlington and is a member of the women’s writing collective Vane Women www.vanewomen.co.uk.

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