WILL STONE samples the 20th anniversary atmosphere of this eclectic end-of-season indie festival
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Twenty-first Century Poetry
Collections from Raymond Antrobus, Bob Beagrie and Owen Gallagher
LISTENER: Raymond Antrobus
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
THE PERSEVERANCE (Penned in the Margins, £9.99) is the first collection by British-Jamaican poet Raymond Antrobus and it is one of the most original of the year.
It’s a book about listening — to what people say and to what they don’t say. And it’s a book about being deaf in a hearing world:
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Memory, inheritance and resistance: a compelling Brazilian memoir, Argentinian short stories about the Japanese diaspora, and the Chilean skies of childhood, with LEO BOIX
MARTIN HALL welcomes a plea for greater compassion between believer and non-believer via the framework of philosophical enquiry
ALAN MORRISON explores, and recommends, a remarkable collection of poems that explore war photography with the moral responsibility of a documentary film-maker
By Clive Branson