An extract from Ashley Hickson-Lovence’s debut novel, The 392, published by OWN IT! on 25 April 2019 NATALIE Hackney born and raised, I grew up on the street, the block, the bits, the estate, the hood, the ghetto, the ends, the manor. Whatever you wanna call it, it’s up to you innit, but […]
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Go the Way Your Blood Beats
Extracts from Michael Amherst’s essay, Go the Way Your Blood Beats, published by Repeater and winner of the 2019 Stonewall Israel Fishman Award Suddenly you were gone and your replies to me were brief. Maybe just a word. You can’t row with silence. You can’t make good with it either. I’ve learnt the trouble […]
Your Fault
An extract from Andrew Cowan’s new novel, Your Fault, published by Salt on 15 May 2019 your earliest memory This, then, is your earliest memory. You are no older than three because your sister is still in her pram, a Leeway ‘Lugano’ with chromium-plated chassis and white pneumatic wheels. The day is sunny and warm, […]
Six Poems
Afterlife of Children now that you’re here in the afterlife of children you are a penny at the bottom of the well of yourself and the Ode to Joy is playing this is a happy time so happy that you’re crying tears the shape of little cartoon skulls I Have Seen This Before 1 […]
It Felt Like Worship by Francesca Kritikos – Review
I remember reading ‘Annie’, the opening poem of Francesca Kritikos’ It Felt Like Worship, in our 2015 undergraduate anthology — stood in the campus bookshop just after meeting Francesca in second year. I think I speak for everyone who encountered her poems in seminars and readings when I say we knew she was already a […]
Thinking Places, Placing Thoughts
A good question, to one who has just left her country!
Where am I originally from?