Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
London arts radio station Resonance FM makes programmes and artworks that have no place in traditional broadcasting and its flagship Saturday show The News Agents is showcasing poetry inside its invisible gallery.
The programme commissions work from poets selected by myself as the show’s curator and founder and my co-hosting team which currently includes the journalist Alice Foster and the artist Rebecca Feiner.
With the tagline “where news meets arts” the show brings together the worlds of journalism and arts in a new, creative way.
Rereleases from Nazareth, and The Strawbs, and a fine collection of covers and new songs from Grey DeLisle & Les Greene
SIMON PARSONS applauds an artist who rescues and rehumanises stories of women, the victims of violence, from a feminist perspective
RUTH AYLETT reviews two collections of outright political poetry
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis



