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
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The Establishment may still control the means of production but working-class writers are taking the initiative in reaching out to readers, says TIM WELLS
PETER MASON thrills to the sound of south London-born Yussef Dayes, and the galaxy of musicians drawn into his orbit
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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
MANCHESTER University Press has published a Tom Woodin book, Working-Class Writing and Publishing in the Late Twentieth Century, and the blurb trumpets that the book’s of “interest” to the general reader.
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I certainly am interested in reading it — I was writing, gigging, publishing and being published in that same late-20th century. MUP have done their job and priced the book at £75, ensuring that the people the book is about are objects of study rather than participants in the cultural life of the country.
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