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...it is wrong... to imagine that the currently fashionable and approved constitutes the work of permanent importance  

Alan Bold (1970)

Modern English polite society... seems to me as corrupt as consciousness of culture and absence of honesty can make it.

A canting, lie-loving, fact-hating, scribbling, chattering, wealth-hunting, pleasure-hunting, celebrity-hunting mob

George Bernard Shaw An Unsocial Socialist (1883)

The want of poetical power is the impelling force in the case of most versifiers. They would fain be poets, and imagine that the best way is to try to write poetry and to publish what they write. They will never see their mistake. Equus asinus still believes that the possession of an organ of noise is sufficient, with a little practice, to enable him to sing like a nightingale. 

John Davidson (1857–1909)

It is necessary for the socialist poet to have more impressive technical equipment than his apolitical contemporaries because his task is that much more important. 

Alan Bold (1970)

New Review Dominic Rivron on Bob Beagrie's The Last Almanac

New Review Alan Morrison on the Selected Poems of Clive Branson and the Collected Poems of Montagu Slater

New Review Alan Morrison on Alan Price's The Cinephile Poems

New Review Alan Morrison on Niall McDevitt's London Nation

New Review Alan Morrison on John McKeown's Ill Nature

New Review Kevin Saving on Matthew Hollis's The Waste Land – A Biography of a Poem

New Review Alan Morrison on Clare Saponia's Federal Gods

New Review Alan Morrison on Fran Lock's Dogtooth and Contains Mild Peril

New Review Alan Morrison on Geoffrey Heptonstall's Sappho's Moon

An Irreplaceable Presence In Poetry An Obituary for Niall McDevitt 

A Poet of Compassion  An Obituary for David Kessel 

A Eulogy for David by his son Tom Kessel

New Reviews Felix Cassiel on Nancy Charley's How Death Came into the World

Felix Cassiel on RM Francis' Subsidence and Jo Colley's Sleeper

Philip Williams on Peter Branson's The Clear Daylight

Felix Cassiel on Owen Gallagher's Clydebuilt

Alan Morrison on Michael Crowley's The Battle of Heptonstall and Bob Beagrie's Civil Insolencies

Felix Cassiel on Karl Riordan's The Tattooist's Chair and Deborah Moffatt's Eating Thistles

Felix Cassiel on Andy Green's This Noise Is Free and Caroline Maldonado's Isabella

Alan Morrison on two new Shoestring collections by Andy Croft and Alexis Lykiard

Alan Morrison on Geoffrey Heptonstall's The Rites of Paradise

New Prose Tom Kelly's Sorry

Reviews Dave Russell on James Joyce

Dave Russell on Duane Voorhees' Gift – God Runs Through All These Rooms

Felix Cassiel on Victoria Bean's Liberties 

Felix Cassiel on Richard Skinner's Terrace

Felix Cassiel on Francis Combes' If The Symptoms Persist

Felix Cassiel on Goran Simić's New and Selected Sorrows

Alan Morrison on Stephen Sawyer's There Will Be No Miracles Here

Alan Morrison on Bernard Saint's Roma and Michael Crowley's First Fleet

Leon Brown on Mike Leigh's Peterloo (2018)

 Jenny Farrell's Marxist Reading of Wuthering Heights  

New Fred Russell on The Roots of Racism 

New Marx & Morry David Betteridge on reading Karl Marx

Alan Morrison on Andy Croft's Letters To Randall Swingler

Alan Morrison on Ian Parks' Citizens

 Dave Russell on Stevie James' A Lonely Man Circling the Earth

Kevin Saving on A Quiet PassionDeaths of the Poets and The Bughouse: the poetry, politics and madness of Ezra Pound

Reviews Alan Morrison on Andy Willoughby's Between Stations

Alan Morrison on Larry Beckett's Paul Bunyan

 Dave Russell on Wendy Young's The Dream of Somewhere Else

New Poems Gordon Scapens, Alan Price, Lynn WhiteStrider Marcus Jones, Tom KellyFarid BitarSheila E. Murphy, Simon Haines, 

Christopher BarnesNaomi Foyle, Paul JeffcuttHelen Jones, Vanessa SadriYasmin KhanJerome Berglund, Roger Ettenfield, 
Mircea Boboc, 
Michael Wyndham, Olecksandr Korotko, Stephen Mead, Joel SchuelerAntony OwenTasos Leivaditis tr. N.N. Trakakis, 

Sanjeev SethiJohn SeedElaine CusackCharles March IIIKeith MoulRoger EttenfieldDouglas Penick

Stephen KingsnorthTannerRudy BaronSteve Pottinger, Ilhem Issaoui, Alan Price, Fiona SinclairKen Simpson

Sam SilvaJim Morris, Keith ArmstrongEduard Schmidt-ZornerRachel Hegarty, Liam O'NeillAlan O'Brien
Fred JohnstonDavid ButlerMoya RoddyMichael Lee Johnson

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