Launch: “along comes a war – Ukraine 2022 -2025”
A beautiful book of activist poetry and photography, bearing witness to the surreal, bitter experience of war in Ukraine, with a twist of hope—all profits to support [...]
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Works In Progress—Activist Poetry
Philippe de Saint Maurice on why a new kind of poetry is needed: Often these days the poet rages at the dire state of the world’s global politics, too rarely confronted by [...]
Sicilian Haiku: Migrant Shadows, by Freddie Omm
We’re delighted to announce that MBB will be publishing Freddie Omm’s new book of poetry, Sicilian Haiku – Migrant Shadows, on 19 September 2024. A [...]
Bear Boobs…
The Bear is getting excited about Boobs. The reason for this excitement is because we’re working with the wonderful (and seemingly indefatigable) Shrewsbury artist, Sam [...]
An iconic irony
So, Charles Krafft – his Disasterware, including seemingly sardonic anti-Nazi ceramic creations, hailed as iconic for years – is outed as a Holocaust denier. Red faces [...]
A faith in the ineffable…
A Guardian article discusses the volume of unread books and the merits of the blank page: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2013/feb/18/unread-unreadable-books The [...]
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