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Hats off to Stormzy, ground-breaker for spoken-word performance at Glastonbury and beyond
Triumphant: Stormzy
[Joel C Ryan]
The Bard pays homage to Hull’s finest promoter and venue, and awards Douze Points to Laibach
KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
ANDY HEDGECOCK welcomes an accessible - and optimistic - take on our relationship to new technology
JOHN GREEN suggests that a new, biased, and highly readable re-hash of the story of the Cambridge Five be taken with a large pinch of salt
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a timely reminder of the long history of protests and the outdoor spaces in which they takes place
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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