The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
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Three poems by Neil Fulwood
Well Versed is edited by JODY PORTER
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
MARIA DUARTE, FIONA O’CONNOR and ANDY HEDGECOCK review Savage House, Enzo, Madfabulous, and Erupcja
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
The Siege of Blidworth
(May 1984)
On the off-chance the residents
of a village that struck its colours
against the strike
would open their doors to pickets,
the boys from the Met have barricaded
Blidworth, laid siege
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SETH SANDRONSKY recommends a production that looks back at the political Tinseltown in the mid-1970s when US cinema ‘didn’t pander to trends’
SUSAN DARLINGTON swoons in the presence of a magnetic frontman
by Widad Nabi
RON JACOBS welcomes a survey of US punk in the era of Reagan, and sees the necessity for some of the same today