By Lance Mazmanian

A poem by Fiona Ritchie Walker

By Naomi Ronner

Cyanotypes by Eleanor Buffam

A true story by Carolyn Roberts

Thirty years on from the miners’ strike, photographer James Parker documents Yorkshire’s last remaining coal mines

Andrea Needham’s lucid book celebrates an audacious direct action against the arms trade, writes Paul Rogers

We publish original art and invite writers to submit stories inspired by the work

Victor Eaves surveys the festival’s short film strand

Is love past its sell-by date? Hannah McGill (part one) thinks she’s better off without it, while Tom McLean (part two) skips through a buttercup meadow hand in hand wi’ his gie bonnie lass.

A manuscript of original lyrics to Don McLean’s epic American Pie was recently auctioned in New York. Simon Warner explores the backdrop to the song’s conception and the hidden meanings behind its much-coveted words

By Luca Serra

Invention, defiance and solidarity lit up Neu! Reekie!’s Where Are We Now? festival foray to the Hull City of Culture, writes Neil Cooper