DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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Moving tribute to two of WWI's greatest poets
Subtle: Owain Glynn and Daniel Llewelyn Williams
STEPHANIE BROWN draws attention to the hidden labour of the female embroiderers, and how a 19th century replica made no such error
MIK SABIERS revels in a band that ploughs an idiosyncratic furrow of expletive laden, guitar-driven alt rock
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
Not About Heroes
Wilton’s, London
NEARING the end of a long national tour, this retelling of Stephen MacDonald’s play about the real-life friendship between Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of the most celebrated poets of the first world war, is a moving way to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of that terrible conflict.
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