Marginal FutureDrought. Flood. Storms. Every year S. J. Litherland wonders if she will survive the winter to see the spring. The planet is under siege. The weather can no longer be trusted. The damage has already been done. Her Marginal Future is buffeted by childhood trauma, the collapse of the Durham coalfield and USSR, and a cold Brexit wind, Everything that mattered gone in the morning. COVID comes as a reckoning of ills illuminating the past and not yet written

Lesley Saunders

Cover by Lucy Wilkinson

the body a radical means of expression

one from each poetry title

Honed on roads

It outlines her early days living only just above the poverty line in the Rhondda in a Labour/Communist steeped family

for all who remember the author’s phrase “There are fairies at the bottom of our garden

Austin Clarke

and an award-winning film

Peter Vacher’s talent lies in being able to capture their authentic voices

touching and

Scene-by-scene