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A Game in Palestine
by Jeff Mohamed
ANDY HEDGECOCK, MARIA DUARTE and ANGUS REID review Synthetic Sincerity, Our Hero, Balthazar, Heartstopper Forever, and A Year In London
The bard invites readers to a gig, raps for Clacton, and lays out the Burnham-Hurzeler conundrum
RON JACOBS recommends an important book that enhances the oppositional theories put forth by Fanon and, in doing so, remakes psychology itself
JAN WOOLF relishes an extensive history of our long relationship to trees in Britain that underlines the current emergency
DIANE WATT argues that while evidence of sex is not there, a 16th‑century lesbian poet could be Scotland’s answer to Gentleman Jack
KEITH RICHMOND relishes a superbly conceived modern version of Aeschylus’ drama of murderous family succession
There’s a game they have in Palestine
the one the children play
a game they call Resistance
and they play it every day.
On one side are the children
aged eight to seventeen
and they play it in the streets
in dirty shirts and jeans.
Across from them are soldiers
behind their concrete walls
they stand in body armour
as the children jeer and call.
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