MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Daniel Sluman - wonder/ful
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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
wonder/ful
Daniel Sluman
two fingers pinched against the present
that thrums through your neck morning
birdsong caught in your throat the ceiling
opens its refrain of tired yellow the breeze
fluttering the window-latch by the curtain
that lifts & falls so softly & this is life
& death in its two clear movements
the thump of your galloping heart
tells you that each wonder-
fucked second is vital
you are so full of living
but you may die right now
right now you may die
& how wonderful is that
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ALAN MORRISON recommends a consummate, heart-warming collection about a working-class upbringing in the industrial north-east
ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event
RUTH AYLETT reviews two collections of outright political poetry
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