KEVIN DONNELLY suggests that the task of transforming cultural spaces is far from over and that photography still has a key role to play
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The Defeat of Gilgamesh by Greta Sykes
Ancient narrative given acute contemporary resonance
OPPOSING THE PATRIARCHY: Inanna, goddess of love and war
RITA DI SANTO talks to Scottish-Irish filmmaker MARK COUSINS about his new series The Story of Documentary Film
ALAN MORRISON welcomes a new collection from the most imaginative and committed ecopoet of our time
CAL McBRIDE relishes the lyrical truth of an unstable identity in an over-tidy and conventional social realist treatment
New releases from Shearwater, Florry, and Navy Blue
CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
THE EPIC of the hero Gilgamesh is a poem of ancient Mesopotamian origin which is reputed to be the very earliest surviving work of literature.
One of the most important historical documentary evidences of human civilisation, it was only rediscovered in the 1850s and was not to be translated into a readable format until the 1870s.
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