GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
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Three poems by Neil Fulwood
Well Versed is edited by JODY PORTER
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
The Siege of Blidworth
(May 1984)
On the off-chance the residents
of a village that struck its colours
against the strike
would open their doors to pickets,
the boys from the Met have barricaded
Blidworth, laid siege
Similar stories
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
by Mike Jenkins
by Rosie Jackson
SETH SANDRONSKY recommends a production that looks back at the political Tinseltown in the mid-1970s when US cinema ‘didn’t pander to trends’