Letters from Mars

30/11/2023

14/11/2023

The latest Movies That Matter looks at Seaspiracy, the Netflix documentary that discusses the impact of commercial fishing on our planet. Watch the trailer...

30/09/2023

As one of the great cities of the Industrial Revolution within the United Kingdom, Leeds was a perfect host to the discussion on ‘could living The Good Life save the planet?’

15/09/2023

The inaugural African Climate Summit recently unfolded in Nairobi, marking an important milestone in the global fight against climate change. Although Africa contributes only 4% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, many African countries face disproportionate burdens and risks from climate c....

12/06/2020

A deep look into dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson’s work - ‘Political Protest Poetry’

https://www.lettersfrommars.co.uk/post/linton-kwesi-johnson-political-protest-poetry

When you think of poetry do you think of music, anger, empowerment? I'd argue most of us don't, and no wonder: in school, we're taught ballads and sonnets by dead white men. But poetry which incorporates more than just the traditional stanzas and rhyme schemes are out there, and they have been empow...

07/06/2020

America: Why ‘Land of the Free’ Has Always Been a Misnomer

A powerful piece addressing racial inequality in America

Following the killing of George Floyd on May 25th all fifty US States have become host to protestors, many of whom have become utterly incensed by the differential treatment of suspects and detainees on the basis of race. This differential is currently best described as a vast chasm, borne from repe...

06/06/2020

The timely release of J.S. Ondara’s latest album ‘Folk n’ Roll Vol 1: Tales Of Isolation’ provides a perfect moment-defining snapshot of the times we are living through

The timely release of J.S. Ondara’s latest album ‘Folk n’ Roll Vol 1: Tales Of Isolation’ provides a perfect moment-defining snapshot of the times we are living through. Image Credit: Ondara J.S. Ondara was born in Nairobi, Kenya and is perhaps the ultimate example of a young man pursuing th...

05/06/2020

The Beauty of Aviation Photography

I am an eager aviation enthusiast with an interest in photography and fulfil a niche form of photography, but I think, one of the most underrated. It involves photographing the very best of human ingenuity and engineering to take to the skies and travel to the other side of the world in less than a....

04/06/2020

A powerful article courtesy of Orla Norman, focusing on Trump's response to the Black Lives Matter movement - definitely worth a read!

The weak moral leadership of President Trump over the past four years has actively encouraged the promotion of racial divisiveness in US, captured by his vulgar rhetoric of ‘Make America Great Again’ in the lead up to and during his presidency – an inflammatory and regressive statement which s...

01/06/2020

It's time to take personal responsibility in the fight against racism, there is more that we can all do. We stand proudly in solidarity with all those fighting for justice and equality across the globe.

https://www.lettersfrommars.co.uk/post/racism-why-george-floyd-s-murder-must-be-a-catalyst-for-change

Only a few weeks ago I found myself writing on the diseases ravaging America , referring to Covid-19 and Donald Trump. I failed to directly address a third ailment which is prevalently depraving and rotting America right through its core. Racism. The death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who d...

29/05/2020

The second part of our review of The Quiet American

If anything's going to draw you into this film, it's Michael Caine who still - at a remarkably old age - is the epitome of 'cool.'

27/05/2020

Read Gerard Emlyn Jones' post on the importance of the Stone Roses and their famous gig: SPIKE ISLAND - 30 years since the glorious day it happened.

The Stone Roses have often been labelled as the vanguard of the so called ‘Madchester’ movement.

26/05/2020

Check out this review of Graham Greene's 1955 novel, the first part of a book and film review.

Maybe if those in power took the time to read Greene's novel, we wouldn't have had the dreadful atrocities of the Vietnam War.

25/05/2020

New article featuring the latest in our weekly top 10s - this week is top 10 postmodern artist. Check out the link below

https://www.lettersfrommars.co.uk/post/top-10-postmodern-artists

Postmodernist art isn’t a continuation of modern art but in-fact the complete opposite. Postmodernism saw a completely new chapter in the history of art, as the art-world performed a complete U-turn on traditional artistic technique a new, exciting, avant-garde reincarnation of what we call as ‘...

25/05/2020

New poem by James Letter: check it out on the site

James Letter is a 19 year old writer who reads philosophy and sociology at the University of Leeds.

23/05/2020

Check out our review of Kerouac's 1962 classic: Big Sur

Gone is the manic joy of On the Road, the hopeful spirituality of Dharma Bums or the drug fuelled romancing of the Subterraneans.

22/05/2020

3 years since the attack that took so many lives: read Manchester based Adrianna O'Shea's piece about the day it happened

“They’ve bombed us.” She said. “Manchester has been bombed.” Suddenly I was wide awake, my head spinning,

21/05/2020

New poem up by Essex based writer, Joe Currie.

Aching its way to you in some concave spiral. These are lonely nights drowning in pooled tears from car headlights.