WILL STONE samples the 20th anniversary atmosphere of this eclectic end-of-season indie festival
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21st Century Poetry with ANDY CROFT
New collections from Neil Fulwood, Kevin Higgins, Clare Saponia, Nora Blascsok and Peter Godfrey
Comics are not just superheroes and spandex – it can be public art, telling public stories, suggests HARRIET EARLE
The bard serenades the Diggers of Wigan and their festive followers
ALEXEI SAYLE speaks to Angus Reid about a lifetime of protest, how to hone political art – and what to do now
ANDY HEDGECOCK, JAMES WALSH, LEO BOIX and MARIA DUARTE review Just An Illusion, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, Blue Film, Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, and Runner
MARIA DUARTE recommends a nerve-wracking reconstruction of the 72 hours before the Normandy landings
MAD PARADE (Smokestack Books, £7.99) by Nottingham bus driver Neil Fulwood is a collection of white-hot political satirical poems taking the piss out of some of the knaves and fools who parade their poisonous egos across the stage — like Blair, Johnson, Farage, Robinson, Starmer and Trump.
Turning his attention to “the relevance, integrity and political impact” of Change UK (remember them?), Fulwood gives us an empty page.
There is a great sequence imagining Johnson as the Fat Controller in a reboot of Thomas the Tank Engine, and Starmer as a character in Camberwick Green.
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ANGUS REID recommends a uniquely accomplished documentary collage that contemplates our relation to the natural world
ADAM J SMITH casts an admiring eye over the noble tradition of satirical impersonations in British politics
From post-human revolution in Puerto Rico to trans poetics and queer mythmaking, these three books that imagine new ways of being together
ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event