Jonathan Edwards presents the title poem from the new collection by Mike Jenkins, illustrated with images by Alan Perry, and introduces the collection. From Aberfan t Grenfell by Mike Jenkins When I seen tha fireblazin through-a flatslike they woz wax,I thought o Pantglaschildren an teachers,graves of rubble an sludge. When…

Len McCluskey introduces the Bread and Roses Poetry Anthology 2018. We are fast approaching the end of the 2010s. It’s been a decade tarred with the brush of austerity. A decade of unparalleled inequality, where the rich are getting super-rich and the majority of people in poverty are also in…

Jonathan Edwards introduces Power Play, Mair De-Gare Pitt's new collection of poems, with images by Jill Powell. What is politics? When I was a younger person, growing up in the South Wales Valleys in the late 1980s, a far-off and mythical land where cornflakes were splashed not with milk but…