The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Gale Burns - We Are at War
Edited by JODY PORTER
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KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
We Are at War
Gale Burns
and now we know we always were. Slaves
to the appearance of things, fooled by the promise of permanence,
the accumulation of trappings, the celebration of this:
the first generation kept from battle, soft hands, suckled, suckling still.
But signs were all around: the mental patient consigned to weeks of sleep;
the silted air; suburban privet clipped to re-assure;
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