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ANGUS REID urges us to understand the persecution of Jason Arday from a political and historical perspective, and to see the victim in human terms
Sam Berkson - Another Veteran with a Head Wound
Edited by JODY PORTER
Re-releases of the classics Gypsy Rhumba and Buena Vista Social Club, and a stunning album by Palestinian artist Faris Ishaq
Nothing, says ANDY HEDGECOCK, can rescue this undistinguished amalgam of ponderous melodrama and shallow philosophical speculation
JAMIE BRITTON invites readers to visit 3,500 locals as part of a marathon artistic pub crawl
JOHN GREEN welcomes a valuable and incisive analysis of a world become hyperpolitical but without the mass movement institutions to represent it
Another Veteran with a Head Wound
Sam Berkson
“I see his uniform is woven / Of blood, bone, flesh and hair” – Adrian Mitchell
An ex-squaddie.
All misery and all lightness
council born and bred
scum of the earth, me.
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