MATTHEW HAWKINS witnesses a contemporary ballet that represents human life as subjected to artificial intelligence
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Poetry takes a radical direction at T-Junction
by Marwa Paikan
A misfit couple unhappily ever after, a dead man walking, dodgy journos, and trench art trucking
New releases from Javon Jackson, IZE Trio, and Mal Waldron Trio
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an intriguing multi-layered depiction, dominated by a stunning impersonation of Marilyn herself
EWAN CAMERON marvels at the impossible ambition, realised with dreamlike finesse of translating Italo Calvino to the stage
TONY BURKE speaks to JOEL McIVER, co-author of the biography of bluesman John Mayall
IN ONE of his poems, written while in exile from nazi Germany, Bertolt Brecht poses the question: “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”
It is a question about politics and poetry that we all need to ask ourselves, in these different yet still “dark times.” What is the role of poetry, and art and culture generally, in modern capitalist society?
Clearly the world is not as savagely and violently divided as it was in Brecht’s day, no matter how hard the warmongers in the US, the EU and Britain try to provoke, start and continue military violence in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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