GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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Abi Palmer - honey, i ain’t gonna miss that train
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DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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
honey, i ain’t gonna miss that train
Abi Palmer
tie me to the tracks, I tell ‘em.
unpick my painted toes
from between the timber weeds
and pebbles
hook your weather beaten wrists
around my dimpled knees.
tip me backwards, tie me down,
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