GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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Richard Purnell - And?
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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
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
And?
Richard Purnell
Banksy came
wielding his stencils
and his righteousness
with his subtle
as a rhinoceros
irony, telling a tale
of pigeons
and tropical birds
expecting the sunrise
would bring adulation and
four hundred grand.
Well, the pigeons acted
with their usual efficiency:
a phone call, a complaint
a council functionary
hosing down, with casual
indifference, the Bristolian
message, and responding
with their own brand
of rudimentary politics:
"Do one. Yes, you son.
Get the fuck out of Essex."
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