The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Jo Bell - Hoary Alison
Edited by JODY PORTER
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
Hoary Alison
Berteroa incana
Precision has no gallantry. The texts call her
medium, hairy annual, grey with hairs,
untoothed, sometimes obscurely toothed.
She’s an extremely common weed; often found
on road and railways, docks. Our heroine
is casual of waste ground, docks, rubbish heaps, etc.
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