GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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Daniel Sluman - killing the darling of smoke
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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
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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
killing the darling of smoke
Daniel Sluman
a name you’ve held more times in your mouth
than lovers’ the weight of a full pack in your palm
as you split the film & find twenty pale promises
pinched side by side bursting to be prised
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