MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
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Peter Raynard - For Tommy it’s all about the Music
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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
For Tommy it’s all about the Music
Peter Raynard
“Maggie Thatcher You Can't Match Her”
is railing on the jukebox for the fifth time
that Sunday night, a time when the women
are at home readying the kids
for future failure or an early night at least
kicking off their blankets and wetting the bed.
The old Paddies, full of pints & roasts,
lost bets and building site widows, shout
about the auld whoor and how she is ruining
the country they came over to build
when they couldn’t afford to build their own.
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