In his 2022 short story collection, The Man Who Loved Typewriters, Neil Leadbeater created worlds in which the bizarre lurked in the recesses of the everyday. The effect was of a black-marketeer with bottles of dubious whiskey hidden in the … Continue reading
Alice was not expecting any adventures. She was just going to Slumberland. She was after a new mattress because she wanted to get a good night’s rest. The old mattress had lumps in it and the springs and coils within … Continue reading
That summer, breaking into the Lido under cover of darkness was the one thing that preyed upon Jacko’s mind more than any other. In fact, it would not be unreasonable to say that it had quickly become an obsession. This … Continue reading
Lynda Plater lives in Lincolnshire. She has been writing poetry for 40 years and has had work published in Stand, Verse and Rialto among others. Her first collection, Three Seasons for Burning, was published by Wayleave Press in 2015. Last year she was the recipient … Continue reading
After a background in Fine Art, Jim Conwell worked for over thirty-six years in the field of mental health as a psychoanalytical psychotherapist. He has had poems published in magazines in the UK, Ireland, Australia and North America and his … Continue reading
The title of this anthology, published by Dempsey and Windle under their VOLE imprint, is taken from lines by Dylan Thomas: “The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives my green age; that blasts the roots … Continue reading
Trieste IIn the crook of Italy,the coffee capital of Illy and Hausbrandt,that dark rich brew of a cityhuddled in a demitasse cup –home of Italian ceramics,Istrian truffles and old world grandeur,Architecture comes with a mixed message:Mitteleuropa with mansard windowsmeets full-on … Continue reading
Poet and travel writer Melissa Davies lives in the North West of England. After embarking on a short career in cancer care, she spent 18 months in 2018 exploring the mountains of Europe and North Africa by bike and on … Continue reading
Prize-winning poet, acclaimed novelist, editor and playwright, Jeff Phelps, is the author of two novels Painter Man (2005) and Box of Tricks (2009), both published by Tindal Street Press and the poetry pamphlet Wolverhampton Madonna (2016) published by Offa’s Press. … Continue reading
‘Rivers connect people and places. They carry water and nutrients to areas all over the globe…to travel down rivers of this length is to travel through different languages, societies and cultures’. (Neil Leadbeater & Monica Manolachi) Here’s an interesting and … Continue reading