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Contents

Features tom Lee

sacrifice to the novel

14

Miriam toews

A Journey into The Flying Troutmans

16

100 years of championing poetry 19 The Poetry society

transmission interrupted

Art in the global age

26

Chris Gollon

An absurdist view on being human

30

Boo Ritson

Hybrid art

into the sunset

Photography’s narrative on the American West

34

38

10 to see

Recommended exhibitions this season

42

Richard swift

Prince sitting in on the Plastic ono Band

44

First Aid Kit

Age is just a number

46

Brakes

Earth is Pretty Good

49

Frustrated love, fascism & genius 50 Little Ashes

Film Festivals

2009 at a glance

Challenging elitism

The spill Festival

Live on stage

Theatre round-up

in conversation with

Wayne Hemingway

54

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new books Gina ochsner

Excerpt from The Russian Dreambook of Colour and Flight with author Q&A

Reviews Books

Music

20

21

45

Classifieds

62

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