MARIA DUARTE reviews Desperate Journey, Blue Moon, Pillion, and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
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Patty Griffin, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Impressive songs, old and new, from an accomplished interpreter of folk and Americana
Patty Griffin
WILL STONE enjoys a set by an artist too eclectic to be pigeonholed
RUTH AYLETT reviews two collections of outright political poetry
The book feels like a writer working within his limits and not breaking any new ground, believes KEN COCKBURN
PRAGYA AGARWAL recommends a collection of drawings that explore the relation of indigenous people to the land in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean
CHRIS SEALE speaks to Palestinian sound artist BINT MBAREH
MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
PATTY GRIFFIN is an impressive personality.
Emotional but measured in her musical and vocal criticisms of the contemporary US, she’s thoughtful on any range of subjects, from the post-industrial travails of her home town in Maine to the admission that although she’s always loved Billie Holiday, she’s rarely been able to listen to her music because it ventures into such sad places.
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