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MARIA DUARTE, LEO BOIX and ANGUS REID review Brides, Dead of Winter, A Night Like This, and The Librarians
Sea Change
by Hilary Cave
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MARY CONWAY recommends an early Shakespearean tragedy that feels so contemporary that it mirrors our daily news
A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin
DAVID NICHOLSON recommends a dazzling production of Bernstein’s opera set in a world where chaos and violence are greeted by equanimity
MARY CONWAY is frustrated by a new play that loses its drama amid the moral dilemma of re-settling children in the aftermath of WWII
Acclaimed as a masterpiece when it premiered, this study of story-telling in an Irish pub more than lives up to expectations, says MARY CONWAY
SYLVIA HIKINS relishes a comedy that dives deep into Liverpool’s divided loyalties
Enchanted by the colours of the sea,
I wondered how it showed such vivid shades,
deep blues and greens when sky had gentler tones.
Raised on North Sea holidays, this coast
of southern Spain revealed to me a world
of warmth I never previously knew.
Lulled by sea-sounds swishing up, then washing
backwards down the shore, I failed to read
the story of its rhythms: they told, to those
with ears attuned, of cries for help from drowning
refugees. A three-year old called Aylan
shared the fate of many: his loss was flashed
around the world, with family photographs.
In fortress Europe consciences were stirred
just for a while, then settled down again.
Hilary Cave worked as NUM national education officer at the time of the 1984-5 miners’ strike, later becoming an adult community education worker in the former North Nottinghamshire coalfield.
Poetry submissions to thursdaypoems@gmail.com.
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