Unruled JournalAnne Rylands third collection begins and ends with the human body, honouring its traumas and miracles. Meditations on spirituality and mortality are suffused with a gentle humour. There is continued searching for a homeland, for unknown homes that evoke longing, and for the vitality to be discovered in ruins. Versions of haunting poems about exile and displacement by the German poet Hilde Domin are woven into the book. Unsung heroes and heroines step

Conjurers and Thieves

and look forward to continuing it in the Autumn/Winter issue with a number of equally important authors

among so many other excursions

‘Swiftian vigour’ (Tears in the Fence)

As readers begin their journey into the works of 27 writers

or what is available of the natural world in an urban context

Abdul Rahman al-Majedi: Four Poems

is published by Five Leaves

From this lively and imaginative opening

microbursts uses the potential and elasticity of the essay form to explore intensely personal

The stories in this collection are stories of the lives and struggles of a wonderful variety of characters living in the Maramures region

appeared in 2010 from Penned in the Margins (ISBN 9780956546746)