Poetry

It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care to act,
it starts when you do it again after they said no,
it starts when you say we and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.

Marge Piercy

Tuesday, 19 April 2022 08:26

Ireland is a Landlord

Written by Declan Geraghty

in Poetry

Ireland is a Landlord by Declan Geraghty It’s just doors and wallsjust a tiny spot of landjust plastic and woodjust tubes and metalfor water and heatcables for lighta chair to sit down on between the wallsto rest your weary boneswalls to protect from the wind and coldthe roof from rain…

Monday, 18 April 2022 08:10

Christ tries to enter Global Britain, Easter 2022

Written by Chris Nash

in Poetry

Christ tries to enter Global Britain, Easter 2022 by Chris Nash Adrian Henri, beat poet brothercreator of Christ’s entry in 1964to free-verse, free-jazz, free-love Liverpool,the happenings have all happened;while we were waiting, agitating,for fresh colours to grow in the Union Jack,your pop-parade of progress passed by;the chip papers playing at…

Tuesday, 12 April 2022 11:14

Bucha

Written by Lisa Kelly

in Poetry

Bucha by Lisa Kelly The man who confronted the tank captured by drone footage. His hands held up.His wife in the front seat, his child in the back.What’s next is blurred, what’s later is burned.The evidence remains. Pepper holesof bullets in car doors. Shot after shot. A body lies in…

Ukraine

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Monday, 11 April 2022 11:32

Culture Matters Presents: The Cry of the Poor and William Blake at the Bridge Hotel

in Poetry

Written by Culture Matters

Culture Matters, in association with Orbis Community, Gateshead, are delighted to invite you to a special North East reading of The Cry of the Poor: An Anthology of Radical Writing About Poverty on Saturday the 16th of April at 6pm, at Orbis Community, Unit 9, West Street, Gateshead. The event…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Sunday, 10 April 2022 15:06

Chip Shop & Battlefield - An Obituary of Socialist Poet and Mental Health Activist David Kessel (10th April 1947 – 8th March 2022)

in Poetry

Written by Alan Morrison

It is with deep sadness that I write of the death of lifelong poet, mental health activist, and dear friend, David Kessel, who passed away on 8th March, aged 74. I feel privileged to have known David, a deeply compassionate man, and greatly gifted poet, whose sheer humility was an…

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K2_PUBLISHED_ON Friday, 08 April 2022 09:40

Fog and Slaughter: Two poems on the war in Ukraine

in Poetry

Written by Rip Bulkeley

Fog by Rip Bulkeley We have to know. Brave journalistsboth risk and lose their lives for that.But information managersare too strong for them. They flood uswith lies and photo opportunities.If they told the truth, we would hear words like oil, gas, and wheat more often.Instead we get people yelling Rus,…

K2_PUBLISHED_ON Thursday, 07 April 2022 14:39

Dancing for Ukraine

in Poetry

Written by Gabriel Rosenstock

Dancing for Ukraine is a bilingual tanka by Gabriel Rosenstock in response to Three Ukrainian Dancers (1895) previously known as Les Trois Danseuses Russes by Edgar Degas. Many art galleries are now becoming conscious of having mislabelled works of art on display and in storage, having used the broad term…

Sunday, 03 April 2022 09:29

Two new poems from Fred Voss

Written by Fred Voss

in Poetry

Beethoven whistles at a cat in a seventh storey window by Fred Voss Some men in this machine shopwork slowly as they canwithout getting firedothers work at breakneck speed like their lives depend on itI prefer to work the way all the poppies on the hillsidebloomthe way the sea otter…

Sunday, 03 April 2022 09:25

Siege

Written by Rip Bulkeley

in Poetry

Siege by Rip Bulkeley 'Wars are fought to change the enemy’s mind'. - Liddell Hart The grandchildren of the mass killers of Dresden,Coventry, Tokyo, and Leningrad, leave alonethe atomic bombs, few of whom were everprosecuted, now bleat about Mariupol. From warcomes siege, and in siege, from Alesia to Sarajevo,civilians, including…

Ukraine

Sunday, 03 April 2022 08:56

Culture for All - Why Poetry Matters

Written by Culture Matters

in Poetry

Culture Matters publishes a lot of great poetry. Here's Jenny Mitchell talking about why poetry matters; and the image above is from her recent award-winning book, Map of a Plantation (Indigo Dreams, 2021).

Monday, 21 March 2022 18:00

Tanka poems for peace

Written by Gabriel Rosenstock

in Poetry

Gabriel Rosenstock's latest tankas respond to Russian artworks, with a nod to Tolstoy. Image above: Cut down birch, by Ivan Shishkin, 1874

Ukraine

Writing a poem bursting into tears having misheard deforestation for defenestration

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Poetry

It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care to act,
it starts when you do it again after they said no,
it starts when you say we and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.

Ireland is a Landlord

Christ tries to enter Global Britain, Easter 2022

Bucha

Culture Matters Presents: The Cry of the Poor and William Blake at the Bridge Hotel

Chip Shop & Battlefield - An Obituary of Socialist Poet and Mental Health Activist David Kessel (10th April 1947 – 8th March 2022)

Fog and Slaughter: Two poems on the war in Ukraine

Dancing for Ukraine

Two new poems from Fred Voss

Siege

Culture for All - Why Poetry Matters

Tanka poems for peace

Writing a poem bursting into tears having misheard deforestation for defenestration

Mars, and To Cut a Long Story Short

Poetry for the State We're In

Harri Webb and Merthyr Tydfil

Poetry

It goes on one at a time,it starts when you care to act,it starts when you do it again after they said no,it starts when you say we and know who you mean,and each day you mean one more.

It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care to act,
it starts when you do it again after they said no,
it starts when you say we and know who you mean,
and each day you mean one more.