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Jody Porter picks out poetry and spoken word shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
FOR a number of years, spoken word has been one of the fastest-growing art forms at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and without a doubt 2015 continues the trend.
The one-person poetry show is big news again and among the highlights at Edinburgh is Wakefield poet Matt Abbott. He’s made a name for himself by blending sharp political comment into his performances and his new effort Skint and Demoralised looks like it will tick all the must-see boxes.
After the festival, he’s taking his collective A Firm of Poets on tour with The People’s Republic of Poetry, also well worth investigating if their past triumphs and their Soviet-style poster are anything to go by.
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