LEO BOIX recommends a ravishing, full-bodied drama about the intensely demanding and emotional art of Kabuki theatre
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Latest collections from Deborah Moffatt, Peter Donnelly and Fran Lock
On the day of the election, MARTIN GOLLAN reflects on the perennial relationship between the far-right and the back-hander
MARY CONWAY is gripped by the powerful emotional journeys portrayed by the parents of the perpetrator and victims of a mass shooting
LEO BOIX reviews a novel where shadows deceive and mortality looms, and a poetry collection that refuses to dim
ROBIN STYLES welcomes a boundary pushing work of fiction exploring the life and ideas of the godmother of modernism
PAUL DONOVAN recommends an energetic adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel, that emphasises how psychiatry is a tool in the hands of a racist agenda
THERE is a curious fable in Aesop about a donkey eating thistles, variously interpreted as an emblem of poverty, avarice, demagoguery or diversity.
In Eating Thistles (Smokestack, £7.99) the US-Scottish writer Deborah Moffatt takes the donkey for an image of the way that poetry must always chew on the unpalatable and indigestible:
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