PETER MASON is beguiled by a fascinating account of the importance of cricket to immigrants from the Caribbean to the UK
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Warrior
by Donna Irving
The new corporate version of Robin Hood is a betrayal of the anti-colonial hero of the people of yore, suggests DENNIS BROE
PETER MASON is gripped by a novel that confronts corporate callousness with those prepared to act to bring about change
KEN COCKBURN relishes the memoir of a translator, but wonders whether the autobiography underlying the impulse would make a better book
A mesmerising novel by Mexican Daniel Saldana Paris, and fierce poetry by Peruvian Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod, and Jonathan Gonzalez
PAUL BUHLE an RAYMOND TYLER enjoy an issue of the radical comic WW3 that gives a platform to Palestinian artists, and uncensored commentary
Every day at two she stands in Town Hall Square.
Her “Feed Gaza” placard, homemade,
heartfelt.
Blossoms rain down from cherry trees,
or she’s skin soaked,
umbrella exposing its innards.
A child screams in its pushchair.
An old man stares from a bench.
Kids shout insults at themselves.
Later a woman will cry into a washing up bowl.
A man walks past, shouts Cunt,
a missile directed at her.
I watch as it ricochets off
her left shoulder,
turns into a butterfly,
flutters down the street.
Donna Irving is a librarian and poet from Yorkshire. Her debut pamphlet Symmetry of folklore, is published by Yaffle Press.
