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GORDON PARSONS recommends an entertaining account of the years between Germany’s defeat in WWI and Hitler’s seizure of power
Personal, political, powerful
Poets and editors rate the collections which have made a big impression on them over the last 12 months
MIGUEL YOSHIDA explains the evolution and influence of the Cuban Casa De Las Americas in joining culture to the revolutionary struggle
ANDY HEDGECOCK is charmed by a skilful adaptation of Tove Jansson’s lyrical portrait of three generations of a family, overcoming grief
ALEX HALL treads warily through a messy, dialectical struggle fought in the mundane machinery of driving licences, criminal law, and birth registries
MICHAL BONCZA, FIONA O’CONNOR, JAMES WALSH and ANGUS REID review Atlas of Disappearance, Love Me Tender, Bouchra, and This Tempting Madness
Flitting between myth and the modern world, Medusa is determined to steer clear of human affairs. When her resolve crumbles, the result is petrifying in every sense
JO BELL
FOUR books, each surprising in a different way, address power and the personal in memorable style. Steve Ely’s Englaland (Smokestack) puts muscle and politics back into poetry, swaggering from battlefield to nightclub with the bloody grin of a class warrior.
Jonathan Davidson’s Humfrey Coningsby (Valley) is a more gentlemanly soldier — a discreet time traveller, a mercenary, a swiver.
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ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event
RUTH AYLETT reviews two collections of outright political poetry