JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
Savage Messiah by Laura Grace Ford
Countercultural counterblast to the gentrification of London
Scourge of the super-rich: Savage Messiah
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Re-releases from Iain Matthews, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and The Charlie Daniels Band
JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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FIONA O’CONNOR is bowled over by a stunning Welsh language drama
MARIA DUARTE and MICHAL BONCZA review Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day, Familiar Touch, Nino, and Toy Story 5
MATTHEW HAWKINS explores the initiatives proposed by HEALING ARTS SCOTLAND
DOCUMENTING the rapidly changing look and feel of an increasingly privatised and enclosed contemporary London, Savage Messiah was a pre-digital cut-and-paste fanzine of monochrome photographs, text and illustration.
Part-graphic novel, part-artwork, it described life through the eyes of a young woman in the capital during the early 1990s.
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