MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
To a Guardian columnist, who shall remain nameless
At the finish of the recent ice age, when
history suddenly wasn’t over any more
and another future began to be written
you were the first daffodil to push its face
up through earth frozen twenty-five years
before those with stronger stems followed
to better face what the wind would bring.
TONY FOX reports from a commemoration of the legendary Battle of Jarama in which four Stockton-on-Tees volunteers fell
ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event
MICHAL BONCZA, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review The Other Way Around, Modi: Three Days On The Wing Of Madness, Watch The Skies, and Superman
JOHN HAWKINS welcomes the passion, grief, precision and elegance of an eloquent witness of genocide


