Zebra Laila Lalami

Zebra Laila LalamiZebra is the debut collection from Hebden Bridge based Ian Humphreys. These acutely observed and joyful poems explore mixed identities, otherness, and coming of age as a gay man in 1980s Manchester. Humphreys is a fellow of The Complete Works programme (which aims to promote diversity and quality in British poetry) and was highly commended for his work at this years Forward Prizes.

have distinguished themselves by winning some important literary prizes

A London silence becomes all the more empty as the memory of ‘someone’s bashment in the valley welled/ up in my head

a writer who doesn’t write

Kat Pomfret – author of Paradise Jazz

This issue pays tribute to publisher Suhail Idriss

To self heal means to live amid a dizzying array of worldly demands

Here poetry and short fiction sit side-by-side in a buzz of conversations

The Zoo Father is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation

acknowledges the powerful influence of the amateur movement

Zeinab Assaf

others on Welsh language literature

"VITAL FLUID" — rival hypnotists stage a bizarre series of showdowns