SIMON PARSONS applauds an original, visual and movement-based take on the birth and death of a relationship
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Uncanny echoes
ALAN MORRISON hears the tradition of English Modernism in an unusually accomplished debut volume of poetry
Rene Magritte, Les Graces Naturelles (The Natural Graces)
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JOHN GREEN’s palette is tickled by useful information leavened by amusing and unusual anecdotes, incidental gossip and scare stories
The bard contemplates X — anti-human vomit soup with dog shit croutons — and the Tory recycling bin that is Reform
ALAN MORRISON recommends an outstanding and timely anthology of poems that reflect the experience and consequences of African migration
BINOY KAMPMARK examines the food racket as evidenced by the recent promotion of Italian cuisine to the status of ‘intangible national heritage’
FIONA O’CONNOR and MARIA DUARTE review State of Statelessness, Rental Family, 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, and The Rip
New Famous Phrases
Daniel Hinds, Broken Sleep Books, £12.99
SINCE Smokestack Books closed its vital operation at the end of last year, after a prolific two decades, there is now a gaping space in the publication of working-class poetry. Broken Sleep Books is one established press which specifically specialises in publishing working-class poets.
Daniel Hinds hails from Newcastle, has been published in numerous notable journals, won prizes and acquired various commissions, and Famous New Phrases is his debut volume. Two different critical quotes accompanying the book each using the term “word-hoard” (from Old English “wordhord”) to refer to Hinds’s distinctive vocabulary. One in particular is “brae” which is a Lowland Scots term for the brow of a hill.
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