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Wading into the Light
JACK CARADOC recommends the remarkable poetry of an NHS worker that reflects on his experience in palliative and end-of-life care
'beep your horn and remember the community demonstrations of support for those same workers'
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
Wading into the Light
by Mel McEvoy
Red Squirrel Press, £10
AS YOU walk or drive past the picket lines of hospital workers exercising their legal rights to strike (although for how much longer we don’t know, as the government seeks to curtail those rights) beep your horn and remember the community demonstrations of support for those same workers.
These are the underpaid, undervalued and under duress workers responsible for the comfort, kindness and care of people who are ill, broken and dying.
These people with their banners asking for fair wages are the same people from the front line of a worldwide pandemic who worked tirelessly, and even died on that front line.
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