Issue 35 | September 2018 |
Carolyn Jess-Cooke: Boom!
Carolyn Jess-Cooke: Boom!
 ISBN-13: 9781781721759 Published by Seren Carolyn Jess-Cooke Carolyn Jess-Cooke was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1978 and currently lives in north-east England. She is mother to four...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
“Over Land, Over Sea:
The idea for "Over Land, Over Sea: poems for those seeking refuge" (Five Leaves, 2015) started in August 2015 with a Facebook group bringing together the publisher, co-editors and supporters
Abhaile: With Tracy Gaughan
3 poems by Emma Lee
Stitching America (for Gloria) It started at Kansas, roughly centre,
and two strands of blue for back stitches: the calm, smooth line of a river.
At each stitch, it...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
Still Waters – fiction by David Butler
After the estate flooded for the third time, Clodagh determined never to return. The thought of the dank interior, silted and filthy, filled her...
Issue 35 | September 2018 |
The Last Time We Saw Strangers – Reviewed
The Last Time We Saw Strangers, by Christopher Hopkins
Clare Songbirds Publishing House  Chapbook Series
ISBN 978-1-947653-24-5 In the new year in Issue 20, I was pleased to...
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