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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
Peter Raynard - Tommy and the Common Five-Eighters
Well Versed is edited by Jody Porter
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
Tommy and the Common Five-Eighters
Peter Raynard
Some of us are washer-women wet-nurse
birth mothers of a nation of shopkeepers,
fitters and lifters. Smothered suffragettes
stuffed down the back of the Pankhursts’ sofa.
Some of us are trench-foot perfect-fit
coffin fodder taken in by the pointed finger
of men bred from a moustache to dig
a scar down France to bury ourselves in.
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