‘We are witnessing suicide by poetry…upon disappearing, Pessoa left to posterity the murder weapon.’ Ismaël Quti
ARS NOTORIA & THE COLLOQUIUM
What is noteworthy, from a humane socialist perspective?
EDITORIAL
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ARS NOTORIA IN THE COLLOQUIUM
SCOTLAND & NATIONAL IDENTITY
Why don’t you fuck off back to England?
J.W.WOOD
Scottish independence is an opportunistic distraction, not a solution rooted in ethnic or historical victimhood
RICHARD STEINHARDT
MASTERS OF POETRY & ANIMATION
Paul Halas Interviews an animation great
GEOFF DUNBAR
SIR ANDREW MOTION
POET OF HONOUR
ANDREW MOTION
FEATURED POET
SURVIVOR POET PERFORMER
PATRICK MCMANUS
PHOTOJOURNALISM
REMEMBERING THE MILLION MAN MARCH
ANDY HALL
FOOD & MEMOIR
Instinct, inheritance and becoming a Masaalchi
ARUN KAPIL
THEN CAME COVID (Part II)
DAVID YIP
WAR, PEACE & SOCIALISM
TRUMP’S SHITSHOW ON THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN
DAVE BLAZER
THE VERY STRANGE SILENCE OF THE WESTERN PEACE MOVEMENT ON UKRAINE
Richard Steinhardt
If the way you follow leads you to advocating for nuclear war, Karaganov, of what use is your way?
RICHARD STEINHARDT
Socialism? What Are We Really Talking About?
DOMZA
An American Conscientious Objector Remembers Vietnam
THOMAS GILBERT
FILM & SHORT STORIES
The Mafia Goes to the Movies
NORMAN B. SCHWARTZ
NOLAN FLINCHES & ODYSSEUS REPENTS
MARTINA WINTER
‘No Police, Please. No Police’
TINA BEXSON
Diary of Lieutenant-Colonel Ivan Petrov
FRANCESCA YOUNG
ESSAYS & LITERARY CRITICISM
The Liturgy of Ordinary Things
YOGESH PATEL ON MICHEAL SCHMIDT’s Shifting Poetics
Lisbon Notes: The Laughter of Pessoa
Ismael Diadié Haidara
Umberto Eco’s ‘Numero Zero’, the Last Novel
ABRAHAM CHINCHILLAS
On Looking Into John Ruskin’s Praeterita
MARTINA WINTER
POETRY
RED
SUDEEP SEN
SONNETS AND SENNETS ON POWER
PETER COWLAM
Ancestral Skulls
John WebsteR
SURVIVAL
SONNET MONDAL
Black River
RACHAEL BOAST
SILVER SHADOWS
SYLVIA VETTA
SIX POEMS
JOHN GREENING
Is this where it begins?
MARY MULHOLLAND
Nativity
MARIA HEATH
TWO POEMS TO KEEP POETS HUMBLE
YOGESH PATEL
TALKING OF MICHELANGELO
ROGER MURPHY
Removals
valentina rojas
Rose Sud
DUSTIN PICKERING
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & LANGUAGE
A World Speaks Its Technology
PHIL HALL
The Frame Problem Has Not Gone Away
PHIL HALL
THE TECH BROS USE AI TO GASLIGHT HUMANITY
PHIL HALL
REIMAGING EVOLUTION AS A CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN PARTS & WHOLES
PHIL HALL
RELIGION & COMMUNITY
REFLECTIONS ON A QUAKER LONDON AREA MEETING
MARTINA WINTER
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POSTS
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SMOOTH OPERATOR: taking on the biggest poker game in the world
Grand Lisboa and Wynn buildings in Macau. Photograph Da Na Pexels Macau ‘whales’ are the biggest fish in high stakes poker by Thomas Levene This article is, in part, my personal poker journey and, partly, an insight into the mysterious and secretive world of nose-bleed cash games that just get bigger and bigger. The…
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À BAS LE FAST-FOOD!
French cuisine ain’t as good as it used to be. The rot set in well before Chirac made his famous remarks, and seems to be accelerating. As someone who has visited and stayed in France frequently over the decades, I chart this decline with great sadness. French cuisine has always been celebrated for its…
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Sonnet Mondal: Poems From the Heart
Ever since I stumbled on Sonnet Mondal’s poems, I have been captivated by their stunning simplicity and words evoking a magical experience. That he achieves this consistently is breath-taking. In this occasional series, our aim is to connect you with some of these exceptional beauties I come across. These are rare, as they don’t…
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Roadkill: Eat it, you are not guilty of its death
Stag in Richmond Park. Photograph Phil Hall Trillions of creatures die yearly, a massive cull which goes virtually unnoticed by Pete Field In the mid-sixties driving in the countryside meant squashed insects on the windscreen, sometimes hundreds of them. You had to get the wipers going, smear them off with water. Now our insect…
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Photo Essay: Celebrating Holi in the Streets of Mumbai
Photograph Andy Hall by Andy Hall The principle practice in street photography, and why I love it, is the immersive experience. That’s the only way you’re going to snatch those serendipitous, split-second moments you long for, as you wade through the river of human activity around you; all the time not asking, not showing, just…
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