WILL STONE is frustrated by a performance that chooses to garble the lyrics and drown the songs in reverb
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A Dream of York Minster
by Sue Norton
RITA DI SANTO points out the social experience of exploitation and oppression that inform the popular winners at this year’s festival
PETER MASON is tickled by a new book and exhibition that mine the rotten anachronism of the monarchy for laughs
A Nazi zeppelin whodunnit, death amidst detoxification, a twistaholic’s delight, and noir fiction for criminals
STEVE JOHNSON salutes the mellifluous tones and clear-minded political message of a uniquely relevant Birmingham-born singer-songwriter
STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
and in her dream the Minster was on fire again
but was not consumed
and the stone kings on the choir screen
blinked and threw down their swords
and the astronaut on the roof boss looked down from the moon
as if he couldn’t believe what he’d seen
all the images of the Virgin showed her clasping
an emaciated child
and the cope chests opened themselves and the vestments
rent themselves in pieces
and the altar frontals were wearing crowns of thorns
and though it was midnight the stained-glass windows were blazing
and the red flags on the floor were striped black, white and green
and the stones of the Minster cried Mercy for Palestine.
Sue Norton has had poems published in various magazines and anthologies. She lives in York.
