CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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Poetry: A breathtaking valedictory collection
21st Century Poetry by ANDY CROFT
ANGUS REID recommends a very unusual documentary: a love story between two disillusioned journalists
In verse and polemic, the bard points out that he is a poet and musician, not a political party
MARIA DUARTE, JAMES WALSH and ANDY HEDGECOCK review The Invite, My Father’s Island, Nirvanna: the Band, the Show, the Movie, and Oh My Goodness!
PAUL DONOVAN is chilled by the contemporary resonance of Harper Lee’s coming of age tale amidst racism and white supremacy in this excellent production
GEOFF BOTTOMS recommends the unashamedly light-hearted escapism on offer in this stage version of the 1963 film
Sebastian Barker was one of our very best poets. His last collection, The Land Of Gold (Enitharmon, £9.99) was published just before he died in January.
Written when Barker knew he was dying, it is a book about mortality and loss (“Life is a radiant highway rippling through flowers, a patina of gold — over an earthquake territory”).
But it would be hard to find a more beautiful and rapturous celebration of living and loving, the natural world and the human body: “When the sun came over the mountains,/I rose from the sheets and threw open the shutters/On the four corners of the world of your body.”
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