JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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“We need to safeguard those who every day struggle with the right to imagination”
CHRIS SEARLE interviews jazz pianist ALEXANDER HAWKINS
Jazz pianist Alexander Hawkins
[Michelle Ettlin]
MARIA DUARTE goes down a bilingual rabbit hole with an impressive Jodie Foster
DAVID HARVIE recommends a selection of Harry Cleaver’s writing that documents working-class activism and offers a method, and a way of understanding and investigating the world
DAVID YEARSLEY is fascinated by the account of four composers who transformed their experiences of the second world war and the Holocaust into deeply moving works of art
PETER MASON thrills to the sound of south London-born Yussef Dayes, and the galaxy of musicians drawn into his orbit
From post-human revolution in Puerto Rico to trans poetics and queer mythmaking, these three books that imagine new ways of being together
“ALTHOUGH I also value the piano as a harp in a box, I love to think of it as 88 tuned drums.”
So says one of the true nonpareils of British piano jazz, Alexander Hawkins.
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