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what if / I actually - am - a bird / my cupped hands / opening to release me... Phil Barnett's relationship with birds is so close that his poetry blurs the distinctions between himself and the birds - a kind of ornimorphology where rather than giving the birds human characteristics, the reverse happens, and he imagines himself as a bird.

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Short fiction and poetry inspired by walking and the places you can only reach by walking. Join our authors in the urban lives of alleyways, the secret ways between hedgerows and the well trodden paths to the local shops.

The City-State of Tligol is ruled by dictators, holds monthly public executions but by and large the inhabitants are content, and the food is amazing. The perfect place for a city break, just as long as you don't want to leave. Ever.

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70 poems for the poet's 70th year, LGBT themes and personal history, rooted in Edinburgh.

Poetry of myth and mothers - when does 'mother' cross the line from myth to monster?

Memory, and looking back at a long life from the perspective of giving up on traditional religion - and possibly god - as inadequate to deal with concern for the planet. LGBTQ+ interest

Poetry exploring the routes taken by Rhiya Pau's parents and grandparents across multiple countries to arrive in the UK. Specifically linked to the 50th anniversary of the arrival of Ugandan Asians in the UK

Taking one of the major Arcana of Tarot as the starting point for each of the poems, Jennifer A McGowan explores the joys and angst of adolescence, her father's falling out with the military, and many other themes in between. The Tarot has been used to play games since the 15th century. Since that time each card has also accumulated meanings. By the 18th century the tarot was used for divination or for oracular purposes, much like the Delphic ...

On a wasted island in perpetual sun, the Father practices magic, laments his lost kingdom and commands a ragtag army of three: the passionate and damaged Daughter, the winged Spirit and an indigenous being known only as C. Behind their uniforms - white suits and full-face paper masks - the soldiers seethe with rebellion. The arrival of the Boy, a hapless prince, and the Brother, the Father's rival, unleashes desire, betrayal, insanity and reve...

The South Downs lie at the heart of this collection - the sunsets and huge skies, cliffs and fossils, fishing vessels and windmills, people and sheep. Past, present and future collide within geological and emotional landscapes. Life erupts magically out of plum trees. Love is as friable as chalk, and as deeply underpinned. A lost father is redeemed through the gift of a chocolate rabbit, a loved one returns in the shape of a trombone. Mothers,...

A difficult relationship with a mother masks family secrets stretching back the WWII and the holocaust.

For Solstice Shorts 2021 we invited writers to respond to the growing climate crisis.From an exceptionally strong field we chose stories and poems that respond to the floods and droughts and fires all around the globe with tenderness, compassion, fear, grief and rage. Gaia is represented in all ther power and glory, and butterflies and plants sow seeds of hope, while other writers ask: How do we stop it? How do we survive it? And how do we liv...

A tree falls in the forest and I am/ there to make sure no one hears it./ Beloved: It's not that I am/ unwilling to be seized by sound, / everyday I am undone by it. Khando LangriPoems, short fiction and scripts from UK Deaf, deaf and Hard of Hearing writers.BSL videos of the works will be available here after publication.Our poets and authors were given the theme of Movement. They have interpreted this in many ways: movement as communication ...

Stories and poems from over 30 UK based writers of the Global Majority, from African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Carribean, South American, Chinese and Malay communities write about maps and mapping. Stories and poems of finding oneself and getting lost, colonialism and diaspora, childhood exploration and adult homecoming.Stories and Poems by:Alexander Williams, Alireza Abiz, Amanda Addison, Ambrose Musiyiwa, Anita Goveas, Be Manzini, Benson Egwuo...

Jeremy Dixon's first full poetry collection A VOICE COMING FROM THEN starts from his teenage suicide attempt and expands to encompass themes of bullying, queerphobia, acceptance and support. Includes unexpected typography, collage, humour, magic, discotheques and frequent appearances from the Victorian demon, Spring-heeled Jack.Content warning, some of the poems deal with the themes and the language of physical and verbal bullying, swearing, q...

Short StoriesSet in Cornwall, and covering a period of time from the end of WWII to the near future, coastal erosion and flooding take on a near mythical power as the short stories in this collection weave in and out of the recent past and near future, as lives and relationships ebb and flow with the tide.From one maritime tragedy to another, the community, and three generations of women from the same family, struggle with their over-close aff...

A Novel in short stories set in the near futureWomen march together in protest at a government reneging on climate promises. Two glorified paper pushers in Spain help British ex-pats escape a heatwave that will soon lay waste to most of southern Europe. A twitter storm erupts in the panic of a real tempest. In the northeast, a beloved allotment sinks below the waterline. Sea levels rise, toxic rain falls and the earth poisons the food that gro...

Story Cities explore ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-imagine the city.Explore new short fictions in multiple genres that address the city. A guide book to the fictional city, all cities, any city: its markets, squares, cafés, hotels, parks, stations and ports, the main streets, side streets, back alleys, dead ends and the crossroads. Never identified, the city has a voice of its own. This brilliant collection of flash fiction ...