CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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Niall McDevitt on his recent anti-Tory poetry collection Porterloo
NIALL MCDEVITT explains why he was impelled to write his anti-Tory collection Porterloo
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
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
PORTERLOO is a direct response to the dreaded return of the Conservatives to power — their modus operandi, their malice, their ideology and their sociopathy.
Contemplating the prospect of 10 or 15 years of conservatism to come I considered emigrating but instead I decided to stay put and write about it.
Seeing veteran Afro-American poet Amiri Baraka — recently deceased — at London’s South Bank Centre in 2010 reading a political haiku called Low Coup blew me away.
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