The habit of hanging artworks on my garden fence The giant Buddha sits crossed legged meditating on Time with his back to me. He’s taller than the black maple tree and the pagoda on the horizon. The image is reflected in the waters of Lake Mahor and todays...
The Stranger, our film poem for this month, comes from co-creators Jessamine O’Connor and Carmel Balfe. It explores being a migrant in Ireland and being an Irish migrant abroad. Jessamine O’Connor has lived in a train station in the rural west of...
Royal Charters in 1600 and 1660 established the East India Company and the Royal African Company and between them these two bodies probably wrought more misery and devastation in Asia and Africa than any other institutions. The East Indian Company went...
me or the devil Ted Hankey asks, “Who’s in charge? Me? Or the Devil?” Chilling and precise, George Duggan takes aim. George Duggan is a writer, producer and radio presenter based in South East London. He is...
Let Rip: The Beautiful Game From the live euphoria of football, to homosexual desire and the macho body in action, Lee Campbell explores “Balls and sports, men in shorts. Football with Dad both happy and sad. Dad watching one way, me quite...
I arrived with the wonder of something new but knowing it was so familiar. Months, days, in the journey, slowly mulling it over, breathing and hoping on the destination then a sudden, sudden rush to arrive. Expectant with a fever that only fills you in...
