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EWAN CAMERON witnesses a political farce that lacks a clear message
Kathy Gee - “History will absolve me”
Well Versed is edited by Jody Porter
EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
“History will absolve me”
The title of a four-hour speech made by Fidel Castro on 16 October 1953
Havana’s flower girls are predatory,
leave the shade of stone arcades
in a practiced pincer movement.
One identifies the mark, diagonals,
too close, across the unattractive man
who sweats, uncertain, in the square.
Confiding hand in suet elbow
she holds fast as another beauty
links the circle from behind.
One lipstick kiss and he is suckered.
Pose for selfies, take his money.
Scarlet skirts and pink silk turbans.
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