Words on Fire
Part 3 of a 3 part essay – read part 1 here, part 2 here. The ancient novelty of Working Class literature Working-class literature, that is literature produced chiefly by & for the working class, comes in many forms & in many mediums, many informal & ephemeral, others not so, but all defined by their […]
Read More On Being An Irish Working Class Writer – Part 3FIRE AND FLOOD MADE US This evening I will be on RTE radio 1’s Arena Arts Show discussing the art, literature & music of climate change. I will be talking about how major climate change/disruption events impacted on human culture in the past. For example, the universality of Flood (and to a lesser extent Fire) […]
Read More FIRE AND FLOOD MADE USBy Dave Lordan. Read Part 2 here, part three here On the same Easter Week of the 1916 rising, a Charlie Chaplin lookalike competition was held in Dublin. Chaplin, well-known to be a socialist as well as the world’s leading entertainer at the time, had a mass following among the Dublin working classes. Truth be […]
Read More On Being An Irish Working Class Writer Part 1Thunberg’s honest & impassioned speech to the UN has ben met with a furious backlash by those who feel threatened by the combination of truth and passion. The truth on its own is inert and does nothing. But combined with the revolutionary passion of the young it can up-end everything. Among what it threatens to […]
Read More SICKNESS IS HEALTH – Tubridy V ThunbergOnly Americans Burn in Hell is by Turkish-American writer, Jarett Kobek. It’s a second follow up to 2016’s surprise self-published hit, I Hate The Internet. Like that book, it is a scathing satire of contemporary society, institutions, and media. Kobek’s Fans include the radical comedian Stewart Lee & the anarchist writer Alan Moore, and he […]
Read More ONLY AMERICANS BURN IN HELL by Jarett Kobek – a review #twitterati #dmt #facebook #trump #posttruth #killerfairies #jarettkobekBecause I’m Human #antibullying #beatthebullies #youthpoetry See me? I’m a human Made of flesh and blood and feelings. Because of this you can hurt me. You can really hurt me. You can call me names. You can mock me. You make up lies about me. You can hit me. You can spit at me. You […]
Read More Because I’m Human – #anti-bullying #poetry“The coming UK election is indeed a landmark and monumental one as signatories to a recent letter attest. However, we are outraged that Jeremy Corbyn, a life-long committed anti-racist, is being smeared as an anti-semite by people who should know better. Antisemitism is a problem within society and is present within all political parties and movements, […]
Read More CELEBRITY OPEN LETTER IN DEFENSE OF JEREMY CORYBYN