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
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GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Full of mysterious religious references and radical sound design, the Scottish duo’s new offering is candidate for album of the year, suggests SIMON DUFF
MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
NOVELIST, poet and literary activist, Julia Darling (1956-2005) was a phenomenon.
She wrote for radio, TV and the stage. She co-founded the feminist performance-group The Poetry Virgins, taking poetry to housing co-op AGMs and women’s refuge coffee mornings.
She helped set up the feminist press Diamond Twig and was involved in establishing Proud Words, the first gay and lesbian literary festival in England, now an annual event on Tyneside. She was also a member of the Communist Party.
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A ghost story by Mexican Ave Barrera, a Surrealist poetry collection by Peruvian Cesar Moro, and a manifesto-poem on women’s labour and capitalist havoc by Peruvian Valeria Roman Marroquin