A Dress for KathleenEvery family has shadow people, the ones who slipped out of the story too soon, leaving a blank space where they should have been. In my fathers family that person was his sister Kathleen. So begins Heather Richardsons astonishing fragmentary celebration of her aunt, Kathleen Hutchinson, whose life was cut tragically short aged just 14. It is the early days of WW2 and Kathleen has just left school to start her first job at a linen mill. But this dark

Margaret Obank Burning in the Past Tense by Suhail Shadoud

documenting the exchanges that occurred at Rob's Word Shop

unified by its fearless commitment to emotional honesty and its openness about the power and cost of creativity

a last gift to his wife Elsa Triolet who died the following year: ‘C’est le dernier cadeau que j’ai fait à Elsa

there is some form of consolation and rescue: “He seems at home in this tempest

Banipal 69 opens by saluting in texts by two of its major authors

protocols and strategies turned loose from all rational context

and poems from Hussein Bin Hamza

it is transport and return"

Tony Bianchi was born and grew up in North Shields

have selected the work of 24 female poets (from Argentina

others ignore them