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What's on in Wales June-August 2007

EDITORIAL 6 Dead Poets’ Society

Francesca Rhydderch

FEATURES 8 Germinal Fictions

Frances Williams on Venice Biennale artists Heather and Ivan Morison

16 Performance and Protest

Heike Roms re-visits the international performance art programme at the National Eisteddfod in 1977

27 At Home and Abroad

Kathryn Gray surveys the landscape of new poetry 58 Cities and Islands

Tristan Hughes in Helsinki

OBITUARY 54 Peter Prendergast, 1946-2007

Tony Curtis

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