Run-Out GrooveFrom debut novelist Joseph Coward: Run Out Groove is the story of Jude, a kid leaving home under a hail of his father's fists, escaping to a big city in search of something, anything else. He finds the alluring Astrid, a musician who takes him under her wing, and propels him onto a waiting music scene. Quickly discovering the dangers of success, Jude realises he must now survive this new, turbulent life, leaving behind where he has come from without

suffering and humour

Many Celtic saints – St Piran

Here are essays on identity

and the queerness of nature and environmental threat

the flick of a dragon’s tail to the ultra-slow swirl of galaxies or precarious life circling the drain

looking on

” – Poets’ Quarterly

It was a time when "children did not have open access to the world of adults and childhood had not yet disappeared"

which Sumita read in its entirety in a special solo performance on Verve Sunday

lineages and history

” – Sir Bobby Robson

‘Reveals a true writer’s gift for comic and poignant storytelling