In her novel, The Woman Warrior , Maxine Hong Kingston shares the "talk-story" that has been passed down through generations of Ch...

  Charles Simic said that ‘poetry is a translation of the silence.’ Gillian Clarke’s collection goes a step further. It is not a translation...

I do not know how I have missed the sight of Hubert Moore’s comet crossing my sky on its orbit round the poetic heavens. Thankfully I can no...

In the spring of 1936, a young author set about planting a garden in his rented cottage. Awaiting the arrival of his new wife and hoping to ...

The word that kept coming to mind when reading The Remaining Men was generosity. Figura writes about many lives: his own, of course, which ...

‘Landscape is a cauldron for Kerry Hadley-Pryce’s intensely creepy and evocative writing’ (Georgina Bruce, Black Static ). This blurb on the...

While reading this chapbook short story, I had a sense of moving towards something mystical, poetic and subtly menacing. Three Japanese univ...

Chris Emery’s new collection presents, and intends to see beyond, the Modern Fog of its title. Here are walking poems, encounters with crea...

   Readers already familiar with Hetzel’s previous output as author of children’s fantasy fiction, including the epic The Chronicles of Issr...