EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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21st century poetry: Al-Shifa Waiting Room
by JOHN NEWSHAM
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
MARIA DUARTE and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Sunny Dancer, Tony, Songs of Forgotten Trees, and The End of Oak Street
JOHN GREEN relishes a powerful and moving drama that explores the lived realities of west London’s Punjabi community
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
They dug their tunnels straight down
through the floor of the cancer ward.
That’s why we were forced to enter.
That’s why we had to administer
our precise and effective anaesthetic.
We found the WMDs beside the MRIs-
the ones Saddam kept hiding for so long.
That’s why we called upon our chemotherapy guns
to neutralise all traces of malignancy.
And in that smoky room, beneath the dialysis machines,
were cowering the last three escapees out of Alcatraz.
We hooked them up. We drained every toxin.
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