This year the Quais du Polar in Lyon, the largest European festival of crime novels and one of the largest in the world, in celebrating its 20th... Continue reading
93n0c1d3 by Michal Lowkain a friend from my youthis a zionisthe loves buildingidf modelsincluding bulldozers the originals are used to destroy palestinian homes and hopes and lives... Continue reading
Introduction by Fran Lock Please read the poems below. In Bondage we enter a scene reminiscent of agrarian indentured labour, somewhere (to my mind anyway) in the long... Continue reading
Dar Al-Shifa by Nick Moss ‘Genocide enablers: Gaza and the corporate media’ Like a war scripted by Asimov on crystal methSquads of quadcopter drones Shooting children in... Continue reading
Say Goodnight to the Taoiseach by Declan Geraghty Varadkar is gone goodbye Varadkar we wont miss you you left us so little yet took so much then... Continue reading
George Gordon Lord Byron was born in London on 22nd January 1788, and died 100 years ago, on 19th April, 1824. His father, an officer, died when... Continue reading
Jim Aitken reviews the new antholgy from Smokestack Books, edited by Alan Morrison and Atef Alshaer ‘Poetry is a duty because it records the last stand of... Continue reading
Gremlins by Fran Lock “having gotten in, it’s coming out one of two ways: walking or writing.” / we want axioms, maximum sky. not you./ an immobile... Continue reading
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson(A bilingual limerick by Gabriel Rosenstock) The whole thing’s a bit of a blurI admit, I have caused a wee stir Please, don’t be unkind... Continue reading
Good Friday by Steven Taylor When you’ve climbed up on the roofof the last remaining house in Gazathrow away the ladder and dare themto demolish you, safe... Continue reading