Arts

POEM OF THE WEEK: What Are You Talking About by AC Jacobs.

MICHEL BONCZA is warned of London's looming housing crisis by those in the know at The Building Design Centre.

There have been precious few women saxophonists who have made it through US jazz's thick masculinist undergrowth.

CHRISTINE LINDEY discovers a fantastic exhibition of humanist prints from the US at the British Museum.

MAT COWARD reviews Richard Blake's Conspiracies of Rome, The Twilight Time by Karen Campbell and Iain Levison's Dog Eats Dog.

RUPERT WATTS celebrates 25 years of a unique club for trade unionists.

LET me tell you a story about John Stevens, probably the most powerfully creative jazz drummer that Britain has ever produced.

ABDUL MASOUD discusses why the dabke dance style is so important to Palestinians.

BETH PORTER on why the happy-ever-after movie weddings will never be a true reflection on real life.

POEM OF THE WEEK: Three Fragments by Geoffrey Hazard.