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Poet of genius
Roque Dalton was the major literary figure and an important political architect of the revolutionary movement in El Salvador and a new film on his life pays due tribute to his creative inspiration, says JOHN GREEN
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
Roque Dalton's name is hardly known in Britain but in Latin America his reputation as a poet is up there with the best. He was killed in 1975, aged only 38, murdered by his erstwhile comrades in one of El Salvador's guerilla movements.
Today he has become that country's posthumous national poet. Life, death, love and politics are the themes of his passionate, at times sarcastic, and image-laden works.
Fusilemos La Noche! (Let's Shoot The Night!), the new film about Dalton's life by the Austrian film maker Tina Leisch, is a more than fitting homage.
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