MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Cathleen Allyn Conway - Kiyiya Vuran Insanlik
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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
Kiyiya Vuran Insanlik
Cathleen Allyn Conway
For the drowned refugee Syrian toddler found on a beach not far from Turkish resort town Bodrum, 2 September 2015 #HumanityWashedAshore
His body, washed ashore: shouldn’t he be sleeping?
Shirt bunched at the neck, shorts towed
below the hip, seaweed tangled with trainers.
That little white swell of a belly should be warm,
should have parents blowing kisses on it,
squirming giggles and tickles. He should be sleeping,
not rocked by Mare Nostrum, whose surf-fingers
gently tucked him into the cold seabed
before slowly pulling away to collect the rest.
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