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JAMES WALSH is moved by a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, and a plea to work with, not against, the materials and minerals of our world
Bitter-sweet encounters with love, exile and home
An immersive, participatory display by a queer Australian Aboriginal performer, and a rebellious unravelling of traditional Scottish dance
EWAN CAMERON witnesses a political farce that lacks a clear message
EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
BENJAMIN POTHIER suggests that Palaeolithic cave paintings in Spain point to the ceremonial use of hallucinogenic flora
The bard confirms that the right has a humour bypass, and replays the English Revolution on period instruments
Don’t Forget the Couscous
by Amin Darwish (Smokestack Books, £7.95)
DURING the second Gulf war the Kurdish poet Amir Darwish came to Britain as an asylum-seeker, by hanging underneath a lorry on a cross-Channel ferry.
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