The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Gill Learner - The Watchers, after Edmund Blunden
Edited by JODY PORTER
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
The Watchers
Gill Learner
after Edmund Blunden
There is no challenge against attacks;
not even the unexplained phone-call clicks
and echoed voices of Greenham days
but who knows now how many eyes
are tracking our searches, checking
our emails, logging our texts, hacking
into our virtual lives for heaven knows what
and only the brave speak out.
Theirs are the ‘stern, fine’ voices
who warn us, ask who polices
the watchers, listeners, spies
while news is spun in cunning ways
so no one can ever be certain
what’s seen, what’s known.
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