GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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Josephine Corcoran - For the children
Well Versed is edited by JODY PORTER
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
For the children
Josephine Corcoran
Hush! They’re sleeping
And Downing Street can’t decide what to send
Washington has hung its conscience at the foot of their beds
The UN has sent its strongest criticism yet
Let’s slip the EU’s concern under their heads
Look at them lying there!
They could almost be dead
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