MATTHEW HAWKINS applauds a psychotherapist’s disection of William Blake
Exiles
Victoria McNulty’s bitter-sweet Glasgow kiss of a prose-poem is a stunning response to class oppression
POETICALLY INVENTIVE: Victoria McNulty
New releases from Christina Alden and Alex Patterson, Odette Michell, Clementine Lovell
JOHN GREEN is fascinated by a very readable account of Britain’s involvement in South America
Strip cartoons used to be the bread and butter of newspapers and they have been around for centuries. MICHAL BONCZA asks our own Paul Tanner about which bees are in his bonnet
GORDON PARSONS acknowledges the authority with which Sarah Kane’s theatrical justification for suicide has resonance today
RON JACOBS welcomes a timely homage to one of the IWW and CPUSA’s most effective orators
DIGNIFIED, fearless and profoundly compassionate, Victoria McNulty is the Maria Callas of a Glasgow Barrowlands tongue-lashing.
Her spoken-word film-poem Exiles flies on volleys of hip-hop word-painting, gyrates over the rooftops of the city and identifies the Everyman in the crowd.
There is Icarus, the beautiful doomed youth who will fly too close to other people’s wars and whose only fear is not being frightened.
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