KATHRYN JOHNSON recommends the work of Norman Kaplan that was a tool in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa
Soul of invention from Satoko Fujii and Joe Fonda
GAVIN O’TOOLE welcomes a bold feminist subversion of classic folktales that are ubiquitous in the Irish imagination
A novel by Mexican Juan Pablo Villalobos, poetry by Mexican Ingrid Bringas, and a biography by Argentinian Mercedes Halfon
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an entertaining dramatisation of the famous dispute that gives insight into the struggle, and Murdoch’s unscrupulous mendacity
ELLIS RAE is disappointed by the revival of a nihilistic play that fails to offer alternatives for social change
STEVE JOHNSON recommends an exceptional album that explores the narrative folk tradition often with a strong political message
Satoko Fujii and Joe Fonda
Mizu + Duet
(Long Song Records)
DURING one of my poetry classes with some 14-year-olds in Sheffield in 1993, a Pakistani boy and a Yemeni boy, Fiaz and Ghamdan, combined to write the poem Mizu — the Japanese word for water — about the human catastrophe of Hiroshima.
“Mizu! Mizu!”
Say the people of Hiroshima,
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