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Exiles
Victoria McNulty’s bitter-sweet Glasgow kiss of a prose-poem is a stunning response to class oppression
POETICALLY INVENTIVE: Victoria McNulty
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely history of the Anti Imperialist league of America, and the role that culture played in their politics
STEVE ANDREW appreciates a passionate account of the Scottish Club during the ‘lost decade’
By telling the story of a lawless frontier town from the point of view of the Lakota, Chinese labourers, prostitutes and displaced prospectors, makes for a potted history of capital, suggests ALEX HALL
TONY BURKE speaks to Gambian kora player SUNTOU SUSSO
MARIA DUARTE recommends a British boxing biopic about the stormy relationship between Nazeem Hamed and his trainer Brendan Ingle
DIGNIFIED, fearless and profoundly compassionate, Victoria McNulty is the Maria Callas of a Glasgow Barrowlands tongue-lashing.
Her spoken-word film-poem Exiles flies on volleys of hip-hop word-painting, gyrates over the rooftops of the city and identifies the Everyman in the crowd.
There is Icarus, the beautiful doomed youth who will fly too close to other people’s wars and whose only fear is not being frightened.
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ANGUS REID recommends an exquisite drama about the disturbing impact of the one child policy in contemporary China