This year’s Venice Biennale marks a major shift in European cultural politics suggests CLARE CAROLIN
Women Against Pit Closures
by Sarah Wimbush
She blooms
badged and blue-jeaned
in the sunshine.
In the shadows -
her husband
her father
her sons,
the gate
the hearth
the alarm clock, ringing.
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