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Poetry review / 5 December 2025
Every poem hits a nerve
5 December 2025

ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event

21st Century Poetry / 22 October 2025
Palestine Inaction Man Figure
22 October 2025

by Andy Croft

21st Century Poetry / 22 October 2025
Palestine Action Man Figure
22 October 2025

by Andy Croft

sausages
Books / 18 July 2025
Sound of silence
18 July 2025

ANDY CROFT rallies poets to the impossible task of speaking truth to a tin-eared politician

Culture / 30 October 2022
21st Century Poetry with ANDY CROFT
30 October 2022
New titles from Fran Lock, Richard Skinner, Tara Bergin and Mark A Murphy
21st Century Poetry / 25 September 2022
Beautiful, delicate and dreamily defiant
25 September 2022
New titles from Kurdish poet İlhan Sami Comak and Volker Braun, one of Germany’s most important writers
21st century poetry / 26 August 2022
21st Century Poetry with ANDY CROFT
26 August 2022
New collections from Neil Fulwood, Kevin Higgins, Clare Saponia, Nora Blascsok and Peter Godfrey
CHILE DEMANDS: 'Until dignity is customary'
21st Century Poetry / 5 June 2022
Singing about the dark times
5 June 2022
Culture / 20 February 2022
21st Century Poetry with Andy Croft: February 21, 2022
20 February 2022
While the enemy’s ideas of culture are disfigured by money, snobbery, ignorance and dullness, the left still has the poets with something to say
Book Review / 24 October 2021
21st Century Poetry
24 October 2021
Three great new collections about the unknowable past and the unknown future
Jack Hirschman at Caffe Trieste, in San Francisco, on Novemb
Obituary / 18 October 2021
Taking poetry to picket-lines
18 October 2021
ANDY CROFT salutes poet Jack Hirschman, an indefatigable communist activist
Trisha Heaney’s Apricot Sun has many strong poems like Dro
Books / 25 September 2021
21st century poetry with Andy Croft
25 September 2021
New offerings from Rebecca Lowe, Alun Rees, Mike Jenkins, Trisha Heaney and William Blake at the Bridge Hotel that showcases the work of 10 longstanding cultural activists on Tyneside