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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
Four poems by James Byrne
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
(from Improvisations for Adam Baiting)
vi. Bread
in the sweat of your face
you shall eat bread means
a fair day’s work earns
a fair-floured loaf not
being told to calm down
dear because it’s only a
(testosterone) commercial
when the cabinet is full
of men born to rule
who would sweat dry
an entire country and dock
a single-mother’s right
to be free from the turd-
baking of errant husbands
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