Fetch Your Mother's HeartA lesbian relationship tries to survive berzerk love, while rage swells in gas stations and living rooms around them; erupting into nationwide revolution. Set in Lebanon, this collection of poems studies the symbiotic relationship between tenderness and violence at every layer of the characters' lives, from intimacy to uprising. A fictionalised retelling of Luxxs time in Beirut during the current crisis as a British Syrian lesbian woman, the book is

the closed doors of 1950s British life

Dead Flies is a book of tall-tales

The father dedicates himself to parenting

For five years

and sorrow over estrangements and Shiva’s premature death

my heart my being

with illustrations by Swava Harasymowicz

With a sharp eye for the mythic in the utterly contemporary

Great literature and art have been an unintended consequence of war

all in about a minute’s time

in defiance of the school governing body

clear and illuminating