ANDY HEDGECOCK is entertained by a playful novel that embeds a fictional game at its heart
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KEVIN DONNELLY outlines how the bourgeois institutions inhibit our ability to to view art in revolutionary ways, and suggests some tactics to overturn it
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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