To rescue Kahlo from the clutches of the corporate art market, we need to acknowledge the overt and covert political dimensions of the work, demands GAVIN O’TOOLE
THERE is a curious fable in Aesop about a donkey eating thistles, variously interpreted as an emblem of poverty, avarice, demagoguery or diversity.
In Eating Thistles (Smokestack, £7.99) the US-Scottish writer Deborah Moffatt takes the donkey for an image of the way that poetry must always chew on the unpalatable and indigestible:
From post-human revolution in Puerto Rico to trans poetics and queer mythmaking, these three books that imagine new ways of being together
Including races at Ascot, Haydock, Lingfield and Taunton
ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event
ANDY CROFT rallies poets to the impossible task of speaking truth to a tin-eared politician


