THIS 10th compendium of essays and reviews, cleverly curated by poet Jim Burns, uses texts, art, music and film as springboards for discussion of different periods of cultural upheaval, reflecting change which has benefited writers and artists but at other times threatened their lives and livelihoods.

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Burns’s speciality is bringing back to life such neglected, marginalised and suppressed writers, artists, poets, filmmakers and publications, an example being the original beat generation in the US. Usually Ginsberg, Burroughs and Kerouac spring to mind but where are the women?