EWAN CAMERON picks out two fascinating music shows, fusing the Korean, and the Celtic, with the modern
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Sarah Watkinson - The Ruin of the State
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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
The Ruin of the State
Sarah Watkinson
Although I’m stateless, am I not a man?
Your feet and mine stand grounded on one sphere.
I hear you say you’re doing all you can –
but let me speak: this towered shanty town
was where I ran to earth, pursued by fear.
War made me stateless; am I not a man?
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