CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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Some of Britain's top poets tell ANDY CROFT which collections impressed them over the last 12 months
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
Gerda Stevenson
A wealth of poetry has absorbed me this year. Meg Bateman's fine Transparencies (Polygon) is a Gaelic-English volume exploring memory, people and place, whose centre piece is a virtuosic tribute to the mythology of ships.
Each image of Sharon Olds' searing Stag's Leap (Cape) brands itself on retina and heart - how will I ever forget the "Tiny Siren" found by accident in the washing machine?
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