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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 takes a radical direction at T-Junction
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
IN ONE of his poems, written while in exile from nazi Germany, Bertolt Brecht poses the question: “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”
It is a question about politics and poetry that we all need to ask ourselves, in these different yet still “dark times.” What is the role of poetry, and art and culture generally, in modern capitalist society?
Clearly the world is not as savagely and violently divided as it was in Brecht’s day, no matter how hard the warmongers in the US, the EU and Britain try to provoke, start and continue military violence in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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