Lori & JoeLori and Joe have lived in the Lake District for many years, in a quiet valley where one day is much like another. Bringing Joe his regular cup of coffee one morning, Lori finds him dead. She could call an ambulance, but what difference would it make? Instead, she heads out for a walk over the fells. As she makes her way through the November fog, Loris thoughts slip between past and present, revealing a marriage marked by isolation, childlessness and

London Fictions is a book about London

Sean Bonney

Sudden Collapses in Public Places

‘She thought that it was precisely when things get uncomfortable or can’t be shown that something interesting comes to light

The open fields

we open sadly with a tribute to Mai Ghoussoub

velvet touch of the mole’s dark journey

Lebanese author Ahmad Ali El-Zein

Each poem is a portal into other stories: from Padraic Colum’s The King of Ireland’s Son to the Talmud to Sunset Boulevard

of love overshadowed by uncertainty and loss

"Perhaps the most significant thing to be said about Red is that the poets in this volume burst through any constraining label with writing that throbs and pulses and seeps and flows

” - Poetry Book Society