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		<description><![CDATA[I have, for some years, been a member of the Southwark Poetry Stanza, one of a network of local groups under the general umbrella of the Poetry Society. We have run a number of events in the last few years, many of which straddle the arts of poetry and theatre; not always easy, since the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hundredth anniversary of the Russian revolution has been marked by a wave of exhibitions and plays. Last Sunday I went along to a small production of Mayakovsky&#8217;s Bathhouse at the Calder bookshop-cum-theatre, famous as the location of Samuel Beckett&#8217;s publisher and now much involved in participatory theatre. Mayakovsky&#8217;s gifts as a poet were generally [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hippocrates book of the heart</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poem of mine is included in the new anthology of poetry and medical writing, the Hippocrates Book of the Heart, edited by Wendy French, Michael Hulse and Donald Singer, and available from all good bookshops.]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Theatre, film and the novel are somewhat quarrelsome housemates constantly negotiating with each other for space and control. I sometimes think that a great film can be made only from a mediocre novel; a great novel has too much material, and does its job too completely, for film to operate freely. I&#8217;ve never read the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Eleutheria: art as liberation</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The enjoyment of art is, importantly, its own reward. But art does not leave its recipient unchanged. No doubt there are many things that can happen, many benefits and some harms that can come about. I want to suggest, here, one thing that art can do for us. This is to leave us a little [&#8230;]]]></description>
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