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Vovô Lipo was not killed in prison. He fled for Paris, where he lived apart from his wife and his daughters for fifteen years. Vovô Lipo came back to Recife after the amnesty in 1979, which protected him from prosecution just as it protected the generals and the torturers. And, when state elections…

Vovô Lipo would be the leftwing governor of the State of Pernambuco three times. As history books say, in 1962 he was elected by a coalition of rural sugar cane workers, urban workers and the leftwing bourgeoise of which he was himself a member. Vovô Lipo’s great promise was land reform and literac…

I went to a talk today

Yeah?

It was some poets talking

Uh huh

They were talking about love

Yeah?

One poet quoted another poet called Anne Boyer, do you know her?

Melissa shook her head.

She said that Anne Boyer the poet says that romantic love feels like a place where you ca…

Before the night tube started, which was in August 2016 – later than planned due to strikes by transport workers concerned about their working conditions – if you were from South London and you went to a party in Tottenham you used to have to wait till 6am to go home. The bus took two hours and a m…

On the way home Catarina was almost singing.

Let’s walk through the park, she said when they emerged from the mouth of Mile End station.

Spring was breaking across the trees in tiny green buds that looked orange under the streetlights. The sounds of a saxophone. Cherry blossom fell too early …