Fluxus

This week's International Times is a Fluxus special bumper issue. For anyone reading this who doesn't know, Fluxus was an interdisciplinary experimental art movement in the 1960s and 1970s (for more, watch Giles Whitehead's film. How to Become a Fluxus Artist, or read Rupert Loydell's review, The Impossible and the Improptu). There's work by Yoko Ono and John Cage, including a Death Metal cover of Cage's 4'33". And do pay a visit to Simon Collings' unmissable Air Museum.

And - nothing particularly to do with Fluxus - I've got a poem, Islander, in there, too, somewhere.

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Arboretum for the Hunted

Fred D'Aguiar, for those who don't know, was one of the leading writers – along with Linton Kwesi Johnson, Bejamin Zephaniah and David Dabydeen – giving voice to marginalised groups in Britain in the 1980s. As the blurb on the back of his recent pamphlet, Arboretum for the Hunted says,  'what is striking about about this chapbook is how much keeps him dreaming, even in places and situations where many imaginations would stumble and falter in the face of ... relentless violence.' You can read my review of the book here, at Stride Magazine.