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Alistair Findlay
Martin O’Connor and chorus
Theatre / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
IMPROVE THE BLANK PAGE: Installation by Nicanor Parra at the
Book Review / 3 January 2025
3 January 2025
ALISTAIR FINDLAY welcomes a collection of essays from one of the cultural left’s most respected speakers and activists
POETRY IN MOTION: The Scotland players thank the fans after
Poetry / 7 August 2024
7 August 2024
ALISTAIR FINDLAY welcomes a fine collection of football poems that celebrate a generational shift in both the sport and the culture
Ilya Ehrenburg visits tank crews on the Russian front line 1
Poetry / 9 April 2024
9 April 2024
ALISTAIR FINDLAY recommends the first representative selection in English of the poetry of the Soviet war correspondent Ilya Ehrenburg
SOWING DISCORD: A Leicester miner with a placard reflecting
21st century poetry / 31 January 2024
31 January 2024
ALISTAIR FINDLAY recommends a brilliant collection of poems written to accompany stunning images of the Miners’ strike
21st Century Poetry: / 4 October 2023
4 October 2023
ALISTAIR FINDLAY introduces the work of the four women poets whose work will feature on our pages this month
Lombard Street
BENCHMARX / 27 January 2023
27 January 2023
ALISTAIR FINDLAY reflects on the place of poetry in the radical press