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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
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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
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Amy Key
Here the sands and me were sinking.
The house though upright, wore its mourning.
Nothing to lean into save the marcasite gutter
people dumped polished wood furniture into.
Internal walls came down. My father had a room
of his own, red, with a piano and Lenin,
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