CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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21st Century Poetry
'Poetry for people who don't like poetry'
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
As Adrian Mitchell once remarked, "Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people."
It's still a great line and it appears as the epigraph to Tony Walsh's Sex & Love & Rock&Roll (Burning Eye, £10). Walsh has been performing for a decade now - he was recently poet in residence at the Glastonbury festival - but this is his first collection.
Bristol-based Burning Eye Books, whose mission is to promote "poetry for people who don't like poetry," are committed to proving that performance poetry can work on the page as well as the stage.
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