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Brecht in all his greatness
The publication of the collected poems of Bertolt Brecht in English is cause for celebration, says ANDY CROFT
Wise, sad, defeated, defiant: Bertolt Brecht
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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
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Thing with Feathers, Train Dreams, Sisu: Road to Revenge, and Wicked: For Good
GUILLERMO THOMAS welcomes a biography of WA Domingo, a key figure in the anti-colonial struggle in the Caribbean
BRENT CUTLER is intrigued by the imperialist, supremacist and contradictory history of a word that is used all too easily
NOT many poets’ reputations can survive the publication of their entire life’s work in a single breezeblock volume.
Even the best can seem repetitious and their finest work diminished alongside weak, juvenile or unfinished poems. Among 20th-century poets, there are only a few who may be said to pass this test and all were communists – Louis Aragon, Pablo Neruda, Nazim Hikmet, Yiannis Ritsos and Bertolt Brecht.
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