Recent developments in Bolivia are absent from a film whose background is the 'water wars'
Subtle twists in novel of cold war ambiguities
Exuberant times with Grimes at the Social
It's hard to empathise with the dysfunctional couples in a new play set in suburban Chicago because they're too one-dimensional
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The poetry of Ian Parks, the son of a South Yorkshire miner born in 1959, frequently touches on the issues he encountered growing up - the civil rights movement, the strikes of the Thatcher years and more generally the struggle and exile of the oppressed.
Artery magazine was launched during a period of intense class struggle in 1971 when the Tories introduced the Industrial Relations Act as a prelude to destroying manufacturing industries and social welfare.
These two exhibitions are curated from the archive of Albert Adams, who was born in South Africa in 1929 and died in 2007.
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Since the late 19th-century invention of cheap reprographic printing processes, artists have grappled with the dilemma of making their works relevant to a public already inundated with sophisticated, mostly photographic, mass-media imagery.
Nottingham publishers Shoestring Press and Five Leaves produce very different books. Shoestring's list includes a great many Greek and Australian poets while Five Leaves has specialised in Jewish and Yiddish poetry.
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Pete the Temp is a well-known figure on London's busy spoken word scene, and his poetry cuts right to the nub of the disenchanted masses.