by Fran Lock content warning: working-class girlhood.…and so, into every little life, the washed animal emerges. a girl. something wet and receptive, lowered through form. out of... Continue reading
by Martin Hayes, with image above by Martin Gollan we come home on a Friday nightafter another dirty week in their officesopen a bottle of wineand begin…... Continue reading
The ‘Labour’ Government’s Green Paper Pathways to Work: Reforming Benefits and Support to Get Britain Working amounts to a cranking up of more Tory-style persecution of the... Continue reading
Photos by M. Quille of public exhibition on 4th floor of Senate House, University of London by Jenny Mitchell A suitcase snaps with joy,falls open at my... Continue reading
by Benito Vila Darwin’s no optimist.He sees every species tossedto specific failure, each one destinedto vanish, by way of its imperfections,true to every past, to every future.... Continue reading
by Kevin Patrick McCann Raise a flag, found a countryOn someone else’s land,Wait a while, then expand:Pick a village, attack at dawn,Spare no-one, make no secretOf what... Continue reading
by Rita di Santo The highly anticipated debut of Laura Carreira’s “On Falling,” winner of the Sutherland Award for Best First Feature at the 2024 BFI London... Continue reading
Review by Chris Searle of the above book, by Daniel Spicer (Repeater Books) As soon as I began to read this riveting biography of the German saxophonist... Continue reading
by Jenny Farrell Heinrich Mann, the elder brother of Thomas Mann, and in his own right one of the most significant German writers of the 20th century,... Continue reading