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Russell Bennetts - The Kensington Renaissance
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KENNY MacASKILL is disappointed by a polemical, rather than factual, account of the Lone Star State and its political path since the civil war
PAUL DONOVAN is fascinated by the lives of Charles and Mary Bagot, and the insight this biography shines on the morals of pre-Victorian society
GORDON PARSONS appreciates fine performances and a feel for ambiguity, but misses the music of the dialogue
DOUGLAS FIELD relishes the hard-boiled language, satire and humour of the third and last of the Harlem trilogy
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
The Kensington Renaissance
Russell Bennetts
May I project
weakened wobbles,
waxed tentacles,
surplus cut and
clad in bolted knots?
The Court of Alderman sought
help from the city’s commoners.
Surly corporation,
the original, 1376.
Remember when Brutalism was young?
79-plus backs to the wall,
this whacking little pill
she’s got for us
is a charred chasm.
Adopt a family
with what now tweeted
with what now marched.
Pressed to the wall, dying,
we got their backs.
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