Musician of the Month: Martin Mackie
Martin Mackie is a singer and music producer from Belfast who has been living in…
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New Music Out of Lesbos: Erantzun
Basque rapper Zekan Askalari’s latest track ‘Erantzun’ is directed by Yaser Akbari, an Afghan asylum-seeker from…
Musician of the Month: Giulia Gallina
Music is a language and languages are musical. My life has always been about that:…
Looking for Scraps
Rushing down the lane to the beach, I race in the direction of clarity; the…
Fiction Reader’s Block
We all see things with different eyes and it gets you nowhere hoping that one…
The Love Poetry of Judas Iscariot
The prize painting in the National Gallery of Ireland is, without a doubt, Caravaggio’s depiction…
Common Concerns: John Clare & Other Ghosts
There’s a strangeness to singing in a language you don’t understand, akin, perhaps, to the…
Musician of the Month: Matilde Politi
Do you know the feeling of wanting to discover secrets that aren’t being spoken aloud?…
Cassandra Voices Podcast: Loafing Hero
In our latest podcast Ben Pantrey interviews former musician of the month Bartholomew Ryan in…
On the Nature of Evil
I met Vladimir Putin once. Or, at least, I was in the same room as…
Poetry: Peter O’Neill
Poems in the Manner of the Devil After Alexandar Ristović (1933-1994) If you can’t chew…
Musician of the Month: Ian Fisher
Foreword Sometime in early 2022, in the middle of the fourth or fortieth wave of…
Into the River
I can barely make out Richard´s handwriting on the piece of torn paper. “Second left”…
Poetry: Lucinda Kowol
Mowing How dare you go, leaving me alone to do the mowing? You used…
On Being Old
Oscar Wilde said that the tragedy of being old is that one is still young.…
Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob
In a quiet room, two men smoke hashish and discuss the inevitability of the Apocalypse.…
Musician of the Month: Hugo Vasco Reis
The process of discovering sounds has always been an aspect of music I’ve been connected…
The Perpetual Villa
“Il y a longtemps,” I repeated. “A long time ago.” My French felt clumsier every…
Poetry: Kevin Higgins ‘Safe to Say’
Safe To Say How ghastly the day before yesterday was now everyone associated with it…