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Ken Evans - Champions
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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
Champions
Ken Evans
They chant and clap at the station,
take rest, eyes open, in the concourse,
flock carriages with shirts of many colours,
Inter, Real, Bayern, Arsenal. They only want
to get to the game, true supporters, enter
our brightly-lit stadium.
The price is two years’ wages,
the cost is family, roots, possessions.
Their lamenting barely heard behind
bolted doors and shuttered windows,
but they only sing when they’re winning,
they only sing when they’re winning.
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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
TONY FOX invites readers to come and hear the story of the remarkable Liverpudlian International Brigader Alexander Foote
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