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Sex on Toast

23 December 2021 / 399

Alun Rees reviews Sex on Toast, Selected Poems by Tôpher Mills (Parthian, £10) What to say of this astonishment of a book? How to encapsulate it in... Continue reading

Alun Rees

Poetry

Thomas Kinsella, 4 May 1928 – 22 December 2021

22 December 2021 / 365

Thomas Kinsella has died, aged 93. He must be counted among the great Irish poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. He was very involved in uncovering... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

Poetry

Keeping an eye on those in power

20 December 2021 / 290

The Poem by Niels Hav, translated by Heather Spears Don’t you put the poemin a headlock – You are under arrest! The poem won’t obey orders. The... Continue reading

Niels Hav

Films

Breaking the glass ceiling: Interview with Haifaa Al-Mansour, the first female Saudi director

20 December 2021 / 295

Rita Di Santo interviews Haifaa Al-Mansour the first female Saudi director, at the Red Sea Film Festival Haifaa Al-Mansour does not need much introduction. She is a... Continue reading

Rita Di Santo

Poetry

Britain in 2021after Shelley’s ‘England in 1819’ by Rip Bulkeley An old, bad, foolish and decaying state,Riddled with racism from empire’s core;Maltreated refugees, war’s graduates,Drowning to reach... Continue reading

Rip Bulkeley

Poetry

Tidings

17 December 2021 / 319

Tidings by David Betteridge For Ken Robson, shepherd, of Stanhope Farm in Tweeddale, with whom the author worked two lambing seasons, in 1964 and 1965. In his... Continue reading

David Betteridge

Fiction

A Hello to Arms

14 December 2021 / 304

Paul Simon reviews the latest novel from Dennis Broe, A Hello to Arms Fresh from exposing the murderous and duplicitous Hollywood of the immediate post-war period, Harry... Continue reading

Paul Simon

Music

Lingering tones in the face of capitalist realism

11 December 2021 / 347

Historically, lefties in the arts are as numerous as there are days in history. However, since the Cold War these numbers have dwindled as liberalism, postmodernism, or... Continue reading

Ben Lunn

Poetry

Near-Neebours

10 December 2021 / 319

Near-Neebours by Jim Mainland See yun whit’s-is-name,Jacob Rees Morgue?Weel, him.Wha does he pit dee a mind o?Lang face, sleekit doon hair?Stick a toothbrush tache on da upper... Continue reading

Jim Mainland

Fiction

The Nobel prize for Literature: Abdulrazak Gurnah

9 December 2021 / 375

On 10 December, the anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, Abdulrazak Gurnah will receive the Nobel Prize for Literature on behalf of black Africa. Wole Soyinka was the... Continue reading

Jenny Farrell

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