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Kathleen Bell - Seen through Toughened Glass
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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
Seen through Toughened Glass
Kathleen Bell
A helicopter spins
silent as sunlight. Mouthing builders
climb and grin.
New flats are stacked like coffins.
Terraces fade, lace curtains
have pulled themselves across, and grief
forces a woman to her knees.
I smile at the vitality of cranes.
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