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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Amy Key - Gillingham
Well Versed is edited by JODY PORTER
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
Gillingham
Amy Key
Here the sands and me were sinking.
The house though upright, wore its mourning.
Nothing to lean into save the marcasite gutter
people dumped polished wood furniture into.
Internal walls came down. My father had a room
of his own, red, with a piano and Lenin,
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The Bard contributes to the campaign of Count Binface, and applauds Burnham’s plans for vocational training
ALAN MORRISON recommends a consummate, heart-warming collection about a working-class upbringing in the industrial north-east
ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event