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Poetic perfection from Chile and Greece
Collections from Pablo Neruda, Nicolas Calas and Tasos Leivaditis
GREATS: (Left to right) Tasos Leivaditis, Nicolas Calas and Pablo Neruda
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
READERS who only know the political poetry of Chilean communist poet Pablo Neruda (1904-73) will be surprised and delighted by The Captain’s Verses (Carcanet, £14.99).
Published anonymously in 1952, this bilingual edition is a reprint of the Anvil Press 2003 edition translated by Brian Cole. They are a series of poems written for Neruda’s third wife, Matilde:
“I did not pause in the struggle./I did not cease to march towards life,/towards peace, towards bread for all,/but I lifted you up in my arms/and I nailed you to my kisses/and I gazed on you as never/human eyes will gaze on you again.”
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