The Sacred Clan Irvine Welsh

The Sacred Clan Irvine WelshWu Township is hollowing out. Our most capable sons and daughters have long since uprooted from their birthplace on the central plains to fuel Chinas economic miracle. The ancient trees now sit in the shade of a modern aqueduct, funnelling even our precious water to the metropolises beyond. From the marketplace where gossip is traded to the long abandoned execution grounds, ordinary life carries on. For we who remain, feuds between neighbours compound

It offers the reader the freedom to come to whatever conclusions they want to about what writing as a poet who is also Black and British might mean

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Indiana Jones and the Lone Ranger

he finds himself caught up in a chase which starts in Beijing and ends in Northumbria involving animal rights activists

and her original screenplay

holy helper and healer

victory means a chance at national salvation

New Welsh Review

Few poets writing today can move so effortlessly between childishness and childlike seriousness

his return to figure paintings and an extensive investigation of the folk resources of Caribbean art

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and poetry as a political paradigm