STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
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Reviews of collections by Sylvia Pankhurst, Chawki Abdelamir and Martin Hayes
RESOLUTE: Sylvia Pankhurst recovering from her hunger strike in prison
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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
JAN WOOLF relishes an extensive history of our long relationship to trees in Britain that underlines the current emergency
DIANE WATT argues that while evidence of sex is not there, a 16th‑century lesbian poet could be Scotland’s answer to Gentleman Jack
EXACTLY a hundred years ago, Sylvia Pankhurst was sentenced to six months in prison for publishing articles in the Workers’ Dreadnought urging London dockers not to load ships with arms to be used against the infant Soviet Union.
At her trial she declared: “Capitalism is a wrong system of society and it has got to be smashed — I would give my life to smash it.”
In Holloway prison she began writing a series of poems about the working-class women she met there. Because the authorities refused to allow her pen and paper, she had to use chalk to write what she called her “faithful lines upon inconsistent slate.”
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