CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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CHRIS SEARLE pays tribute to Peter Blackman, whose collected poems have just been published
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Born in 1909, Peter Blackman was the son of a quasi-illiterate stonemason and a laundress in St John's parish, Barbados - one of the poorest parts of the island.
He was given a scholarship to an exclusive colonial school by an Anglican church eagerly seeking "native" recruits to the priesthood.
Despatched to Durham University, he became a priest in 1933 and was sent to Gambia as a missionary. There he very soon discovered that black priests like himself were on a lower stipend than their white colleagues.
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