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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
Poetry: A breathtaking valedictory collection
21st Century Poetry by ANDY CROFT
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
Sebastian Barker was one of our very best poets. His last collection, The Land Of Gold (Enitharmon, £9.99) was published just before he died in January.
Written when Barker knew he was dying, it is a book about mortality and loss (“Life is a radiant highway rippling through flowers, a patina of gold — over an earthquake territory”).
But it would be hard to find a more beautiful and rapturous celebration of living and loving, the natural world and the human body: “When the sun came over the mountains,/I rose from the sheets and threw open the shutters/On the four corners of the world of your body.”
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