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Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
Cathleen Allyn Conway - Kiyiya Vuran Insanlik
Well Versed is edited by Jody Porter
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
JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
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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