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Hats off to Stormzy, ground-breaker for spoken-word performance at Glastonbury and beyond
Triumphant: Stormzy
[Joel C Ryan]
SIMON DUFF relishes the cross contamination of Damien Hirst’s greatest hits by street artists from France and the US
In view of the grooming gangs inquiry, SIMON PARSONS feels the relevance of this powerful examination of trauma suffered at Medomsley Youth Detention Centre
JOHN GREEN doubts the motivations of a US war photographer who never questions why, or for whom, she is producing images of imperialist conflict
MARIA DUARTE reviews Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, The Mastermind, and Regretting You
TONY CONWAY welcomes a thrilling and concise history of Hope not Hate, that is also a manual full of tactical advice
PAUL DONOVAN welcomes an inspiring account of living with deafness that has important lessons for the treatment of deaf people in today’s UK
ON THE road again, writing on the train, got a million ideas buzzing round my brain...
I’m heading to Bradford for a last minute Literature Festival gig at St George’s Hall with award-winning poet and podcaster George the Poet and very much looking forward to meeting another trailblazer from the burgeoning new generation of spoken-word artists.
They’re everywhere these days and, in a huge triumph not just for Stormzy, but for the genre, one has just headlined the main stage at Glastonbury.
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