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Brecht in all his greatness
The publication of the collected poems of Bertolt Brecht in English is cause for celebration, says ANDY CROFT
Wise, sad, defeated, defiant: Bertolt Brecht
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JOHN GREEN’s palette is tickled by useful information leavened by amusing and unusual anecdotes, incidental gossip and scare stories
The bard contemplates X — anti-human vomit soup with dog shit croutons — and the Tory recycling bin that is Reform
ALAN MORRISON recommends an outstanding and timely anthology of poems that reflect the experience and consequences of African migration
BINOY KAMPMARK examines the food racket as evidenced by the recent promotion of Italian cuisine to the status of ‘intangible national heritage’
FIONA O’CONNOR and MARIA DUARTE review State of Statelessness, Rental Family, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and The Rip
NOT many poets’ reputations can survive the publication of their entire life’s work in a single breezeblock volume.
Even the best can seem repetitious and their finest work diminished alongside weak, juvenile or unfinished poems. Among 20th-century poets, there are only a few who may be said to pass this test and all were communists – Louis Aragon, Pablo Neruda, Nazim Hikmet, Yiannis Ritsos and Bertolt Brecht.
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