MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
THE US poet Fred Voss once said that he hoped his poems might one day “strike the spark or kick the pebble that will start the fire or the avalanche that will change the world a little.”
That’s a good way of describing the limitless ambitions of a slim volume of poems.
Voss is the author of one of three splendid new pamphlets from Culture Matters/Manifesto Books (£5.99 each or £15 for all three) and, like all his work, The Earth and the Stars in the Palm of Our Hand is about the machine shop where he has worked for over 30 years.
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