A Mosaic of Memories
War and Turpentine, Stefan Hertmans trans. David McKay, Harvill Secker, 2016, £8.99 (paperback) ‘People from the age of Europe’s…
The Power by Naomi Alderman
Some suggest that science fiction is a woman’s genre. In its purest form, sci-fi reimagines the structures of society and,…
An interview with Gwilym Jones
There’s something about the unpredictability of a storm that arouses excitement and chaos in a reader, writer, or just your…
Breathing the World’s Air
Messages from a Lost World, Stefan Zweig, translated by Will Stone, Pushkin Press, 2016, 224pp, (hardback) The Storyteller: Tales…
The Sleepwalkers by Will Stone
Europe is a wasteland in Will Stone’s third collection The Sleepwalkers. The poet portrays the continent as ‘What’s left of…
Shining Shoes by Nausheen Eusuf
Weekends, growing up, I’d watch my father as he sat on a low stool in the veranda surrounded by half…
The Blind Roadmaker by Ian Duhig
In his latest eclectic collection of poems, Ian Duhig sings (and dances) for those marginalised in poetry and forgotten by…
Falling Awake by Alice Oswald
‘The whole challenge of poetry’, Alice Oswald once wrote, ‘is to keep language open, so that what we don’t yet…
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