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Jacqueline Saphra - Ballot Box Blues, after WH Auden
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CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
Ballot Box Blues
After WH Auden
The day dawned dry and windy, the game too close to call,
the pollsters with their reckonings had made fools of us all.
Never trust the numbers, my dear, never trust the numbers.
Meanwhile down at Morrison’s the spam was going cheap
but the price of bread and butter was enough to make you weep.
And the queues were getting long, my dear, the queues were getting long.
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