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Poetry
Poetry
Mahmoud Darwish: Poet of the Palestinian Resistance - video
Michael Lavalette launches his new book
Palestinian Cultures of Resistance
with a discussion about the life, politics and poetry of Mahmoud Darwish
Soundtrack to the Brixton Uprising 40 years on
Marking the 40th anniversary of the uprising in Brixton, Dave Randall looks at the music that accompanied the struggle
'Greatness' In A Time Of Covid
A poem by Tayo Aluko
Bob Dylan: Rough and Rowdy Ways - review
Morgan Daniels reviews 'Rough and Rowdy Ways', the latest studio album from Bob Dylan
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 Disbelief
and
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