MARY CONWAY revels in a powerful reminder that human lives are not defined by physical perfection
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Poet SALENA GODDEN is a class act live and her books and debut album show why she’s one of the best on the circuit, writes Tim Wells
PAUL DONOVAN recommends the fine performances in this account of the pre-war meeting between the US president and the British king
TECLYN AROD relishes an intimate celebration of jazz improvisation that mixes local and national musicians
The missing sister, the vengeful WAG, cruise ship claustrophobia, and reanimated Avengers
Three great releases of lost concerts by Duke Ellington Orchestra, John Taylor & Stan Sulzman, and Joe Henderson
To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
EARLIER this month Salena Godden launched her debut album LIVEwire and, like Ron Jeremy, it’s taken a long time coming.
The rock magazine Kerrang said that she’s “everything the Daily Mail hates.” Indeed, that she’s black, female and licentious will ire the Daily Heil but it’s the fact that she’s also intelligent, funny and engaging that really gets them hot under the starched white collar.
Godden’s written My Tits Are More Feminist Than Your Tits, one of the best political poems of the last few years and it’s, rightly, a live favourite.
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