DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Roy Marshall - Decree no. 2015
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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
Decree no. 2015
Roy Marshall
Calm as a mass of Kevlar helmets assembled beneath a flag
or stacked heat-seeking heads awaiting discharge
we shall pursue the following goals;
if deemed applicable, the slowest runner shall be caught,
his or her head, blown off. Monkeys may be mown from trees,
collaterally. A beetle might be all that survives
to crawl through ash on a hospital floor. The street
will be supplied with ignition until it flames, brandy-blue,
the school draped in drifts of smoke that shift
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