CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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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
Flow
Lisa Kelly
you with your folding bike
you with your oxblood boots
bow tie, lakeside carrier
you with your baby on board
baby overboard
you with your valuables
your wedding ring
you with your safe harbour
you with your canvas
aquarelles, water lilies
you with your waterlogged lives
watertight lies
waterproof mascara
you with your bunch of migrants
crocodile smile
crocodile tears
you with what washed up
what washed out
you with your watershed moment
continental drift
you with your suspended load
plunge pool
raft of measures
you with your confluence
catchment, catchment area
war of attrition
meander
abrasion
bedload
base level
you yes
you
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