GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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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
Kiyiya Vuran Insanlik
Cathleen Allyn Conway
For the drowned refugee Syrian toddler found on a beach not far from Turkish resort town Bodrum, 2 September 2015 #HumanityWashedAshore
His body, washed ashore: shouldn’t he be sleeping?
Shirt bunched at the neck, shorts towed
below the hip, seaweed tangled with trainers.
That little white swell of a belly should be warm,
should have parents blowing kisses on it,
squirming giggles and tickles. He should be sleeping,
not rocked by Mare Nostrum, whose surf-fingers
gently tucked him into the cold seabed
before slowly pulling away to collect the rest.
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