Strike (Shortlisted, Forward Poetry Prize Best Collection)

Sarah Wimbush(Stairwell Books, 2024); pbk, £15.00      300 million years of compression     dripping through their hands.                                                    (‘Boy Riddlers’) Trade union activists reading Sarah Wimbush’s Strike will recognise those turbulent meetings, the passions, pains, waved placards, and they will know both the lasting comradeship and the perpetual divisions germinated during prolonged strife. They will be Read More

Wasteland

Shrouded in darkness, the rear of the stage contains a square rug,  a chest of drawers, a TV and an armchair. A spotlight picks out a small red plastic stacking chair near the stage front. A lone man in drab, loose clothes falls onto stage and throws his body around. He dances by and around Read More