MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Gale Burns - Even Worse Government, after Emily Berry
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KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Even Worse Government
Gale Burns
after Bad New Government by Emily Berry
Love, like a nightmare repeated I woke to an even worse government; the fridge light is broken, so who knows what’s there, and my heart, under strain, seems to beat with a start I begin the day like a walker without any shoes I want to pace purposefully and email you about happy circumstances: the sunlight streaming into the front room, the eco-poetry night last night, and the growing sweet peas, but today I can hardly bear to draw the curtains and all food tastes like gruel
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