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Patrick Cotter - Homecoming
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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
Homecoming
Patrick Cotter
The returned conscript dances with his mother,
unscathed body crowned by his beaming smile;
her yellow-ribboned hair the only bright thing
on her angled, wistful head. He still has all his mother.
She has just one of three sons. She knows it’s good
he still has two legs to kick with, two hands to scoop
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