The Backstage Clan Format:Hardback

The Backstage Clan Format:HardbackSmooth Diaos day is going anything but. Judging by how the stagehands treat him, you wouldnt guess that hes the foreman who makes sure theres food on their tables or that this bunch of yokels work for Xians premier theatre company, where their unseen grafting makes all the dazzling performances possible. Whoever said showbusiness was glamorous? Keeping the gang out of trouble in the city's many dives and cheap noodle bars is a thankless job when all

Fifty Years: Poems 1957-2007

this is poetry at its most approachable

so has time

In this volatile landscape

Les Chambres was Louis Aragon’s last collection

and exposes the underbelly of our own biases—the ways in which they manifest in everyday language and collective consciousness

He works as a teacher

They are co-parent of Clumsy Bodies

almost impossible to grasp

and a mirror – Hedva's prose is incisive and empathetic

media-centred London but the working-class community of his childhood in the Forest of Dean

The sessions go badly