Culture Matters is proud to introduce the third long-anticipated collection in their new series of digital poetry pamphlets: Machine / Language by Martin Hayes. The book is available free to download (below) and is also available from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. as a print-on-demand hard copy. We celebrated with a virtual reading at…

Gabriel Rosenstock's bilingual tribute to Queen Camilla has moved millions of her ardent followers: Ar chuala tú trácht ar Chamillab'í gile na gile í - na gile! do chruaidh sí gach slat bhí go dtí sin gan atcé gur fhéach sí ar nós sean-sinsile There was a fine queen called…

Sculptor by Tom Hubbard They who had chiselled the names and the datesOn the angled and sunken stonesHad themselves died long ago. They sharedThe worn anonymity: memorialisedAnd memorialisers alike. So now, the living,Gathered at the gates, the awkwardly present,Barely hearing a new voice in their souls,Uncertain, wary, inarticulate. There were…

Nick Moss reviews Fred Voss's latest book of poetry, available here There is a curiously valedictory tone to some of Fred Voss’s writing here. In fact “valedictory” doesn’t come close to it – I’m dancing round the issue. Some of these poems sound beaten, distressed, as if he’s had the…