I hear that you are launching a new Bread and Roses poetry award? I want to get some details off you about it but first, how’s the Culture Matters website going?

MQ: It’s going very well thanks. We set it up just over a year ago to provide a platform for the cultural struggle for democratic socialism. For us, it’s a modern version of what William Blake called the “mental fight” to build the “new Jerusalem.”

We run creative and critical material on all the arts, and also cultural activities such as sport, religion, eating and drinking etc. Even though we’ve no budget to pay for articles or poems or anything — including our own editorial input and technical support — we’ve attracted hundreds of articles and poems.