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Patrick Cotter - Homecoming
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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
Homecoming
Patrick Cotter
The returned conscript dances with his mother,
unscathed body crowned by his beaming smile;
her yellow-ribboned hair the only bright thing
on her angled, wistful head. He still has all his mother.
She has just one of three sons. She knows it’s good
he still has two legs to kick with, two hands to scoop
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