CHRIS SEARLE welcomes a startling vision of contemporary Newport from a veteran photographer of the British working class
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Poetry takes a radical direction at T-Junction
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
IN ONE of his poems, written while in exile from nazi Germany, Bertolt Brecht poses the question: “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”
It is a question about politics and poetry that we all need to ask ourselves, in these different yet still “dark times.” What is the role of poetry, and art and culture generally, in modern capitalist society?
Clearly the world is not as savagely and violently divided as it was in Brecht’s day, no matter how hard the warmongers in the US, the EU and Britain try to provoke, start and continue military violence in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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