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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
EXCEPTIONAL working-class women provide the heartbeat of Adelle Stripe’s fiction.
The late Bolshie Bradford dramatist Andrea Dunbar, whose bitter brief story is retold in her debut novel Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile, is one.
Mary Mudd — not a relative of mine — is another. She’s Stripe’s maternal great-great-great-grandmother and subject of The Humber Star, the poet’s collaboration with Icelandic composer Halldor Smarason.
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