Besharam Jan Lowe Shinebourne

Besharam Jan Lowe ShinebourneLearning that your mind and body have been taken hostage is one thing. Learning how to take them back is another. What if those that are returned are different to the ones that were lost? Besharam Nafeesa Hamids glorious debut collection asks this and many other questions. When does a girl become a woman? When does her world allow her to become a woman? And what kind of woman should she be? The answers arent readily forthcoming. As she treads the

Karen McCarthy Woolf

Mohamed Berrada

often fantastical fashion

red and green – and by deep feelings of intimacy and betrayal

Maxine Linnell trained as a psychotherapist and later gained at distinction in the Nottingham Trent University MA in Creative Writing

and the intellectual honesty

He has edited many anthologies of poetry

He raised his head up out of the clothes and slightly lifted the edge of the curtain

I swoop down and then up to miss smashing into the crowns of the trees and I see the bruised air and the black horizon

Tatyana Milova

which recorded the folklore and cultural history of our native wildflowers

but it is 1976 and the civil war is closing in