Poetry

Restoration Tragedy review - an experimental encounter between early music, punk and politics

This celebration of 'the world turned upside down' is a perfect blend of folk, punk, and English radical history, writes John Rees
The Rhyming Guide to Donald Trump

Potent Whisper makes the case for protesting against Donald Trump
You’ll never edit Grenfell

A spoken word response to Andrew O’Hagan’s ‘The Tower’ by Potent Whisper
May Days review - a fitting tribute to Grenfell and a society fighting back

This staging of a potent poem of our times gives voice to a class realising its own power, finds Cameron Panting
May Days: a benefit for Grenfell

William Alderson’s “magnificent” poem May Days is to be performed by actors in aid of the Grenfell Tower victims to commemorate the anniversary of the disaster
Iolo Morganwg and the making of nationalisms

The fakery of Celtic myths are part of a long tradition of nation-building in these islands, argues Chris Bambery
Walking to Hell

A poem on Grenfell
A Moment of Disbelief: Poems on War, Terrorism, and Refugees - book review

William Alderson’s poems in A Moment of Disbeliefand May Days unite politics and feeling in a brilliant reclaiming of a fine poetic tradition, finds Dominic Alexander
'May Days' - poem

A poem by William Alderson on the current state of Britian
For the many, not the few: Jeremy Corbyn and Percy Bysshe Shelley

A look at the radical history of the poem the Labour leader quoted at Glastonbury
Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary

The relevance of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s radical politics and poetry is revealed in Jacqueline Mulhallen’s new biography, finds Alex Snowdon
Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Necessity of Atheism

The second extract from Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary, sees the ferocious reaction produced by Shelley's pioneering advocacy of atheism
Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Philosophical Review of Reform

In this first extract from Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary, Jacqueline Mulhallen discusses Shelley’s radical politics in the wake of the Peterloo massacre

Poetry

Poetry

Restoration Tragedy review - an experimental encounter between early music, punk and politics

This celebration of 'the world turned upside down' is a perfect blend of folk, punk, and English radical history, writes John Rees

The Rhyming Guide to Donald Trump

Potent Whisper makes the case for protesting against Donald Trump

You’ll never edit Grenfell

A spoken word response to Andrew O’Hagan’s ‘The Tower’ by Potent Whisper

May Days review - a fitting tribute to Grenfell and a society fighting back

This staging of a potent poem of our times gives voice to a class realising its own power, finds Cameron Panting

May Days: a benefit for Grenfell

William Alderson’s “magnificent” poem May Days is to be performed by actors in aid of the Grenfell Tower victims to commemorate the anniversary of the disaster

Iolo Morganwg and the making of nationalisms

The fakery of Celtic myths are part of a long tradition of nation-building in these islands, argues Chris Bambery

Walking to Hell

A poem on Grenfell

A Moment of Disbelief: Poems on War, Terrorism, and Refugees - book review

William Alderson’s poems in A Moment of Disbeliefand May Days unite politics and feeling in a brilliant reclaiming of a fine poetic tradition, finds Dominic Alexander

'May Days' - poem

A poem by William Alderson on the current state of Britian

For the many, not the few: Jeremy Corbyn and Percy Bysshe Shelley

A look at the radical history of the poem the Labour leader quoted at Glastonbury

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary

The relevance of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s radical politics and poetry is revealed in Jacqueline Mulhallen’s new biography, finds Alex Snowdon

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Necessity of Atheism

The second extract from Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary, sees the ferocious reaction produced by Shelley's pioneering advocacy of atheism

Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Philosophical Review of Reform

In this first extract from Percy Bysshe Shelley: Poet and Revolutionary, Jacqueline Mulhallen discusses Shelley’s radical politics in the wake of the Peterloo massacre

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