Ictus

                                                                    If London Orbital was Iain Sinclair's first foray outside the urba...

                                     When I embarked on this blog last May, I intended the main drift of the posts to be concerned with p...

Follow-up to previous - a short clip of one unsung lynchpin of UK reggae who got only a passing mention in 'Reggae Brittania'. Thi...

Enthralling BBC documentary on the history of UK reggae last night, with contributions from seminal figures like Prince Buster, Bunny Lee, S...

(After Rimbaud – the speaker has made a counter-journey to his, from Harar to London via France): ‘I am a transient, not-too-downtrodden in...

Ictus is very pleased to welcome a new piece of writing by Rob Taylor, a poet and musician based in Brighton; an insightful reading of Fost...

 I recently began working at Hackney Community College in the to me unexplored locale of Shoreditch. Tipped off by a reference in Iain Si...

  Heartening article by Jackie Kay celebrating an apparent 'poetry renaissance' in the UK. Could it be (using Auden's terms) tha...

Marvellously sensuous/sensual new poem from David Harsent, undoubtedly one of the best living English poets; a good example of how over a ...

Just read that Trish Keenan of Broadcast died of pneumonia a week ago at the absurdly young age of 42. They were an important band, precur...