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Victoria McNulty’s bitter-sweet Glasgow kiss of a prose-poem is a stunning response to class oppression
POETICALLY INVENTIVE: Victoria McNulty

DIGNIFIED, fearless and profoundly compassionate, Victoria McNulty is the Maria Callas of a Glasgow Barrowlands tongue-lashing.

Her spoken-word film-poem Exiles flies on volleys of hip-hop word-painting, gyrates over the rooftops of the city and identifies the Everyman in the crowd.

There is Icarus, the beautiful doomed youth who will fly too close to other people’s wars and whose only fear is not being frightened.

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