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Twenty-first Century Poetry
Latest collections from Deborah Moffatt, Peter Donnelly and Fran Lock
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
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:
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