UnmotheredA Debut collection from Black British poet A J Akoto. When is a mother a myth, and when is she a monster? In an intimate and unflinching collection, A J Akoto tracks the complex bind of mother daughter relationships. Through separation and attempts to mend, longing, and the fluidity of myth story telling in defining histories and identities, she collapses the elision between womanhood and motherhood daughterhood, bringing to the forefront that which

dreaminess and poetic inclinations

O'Connor Award

interviews and poetry by high-profile writers on their experiences of creating art while also engaged in the compelling

and where a seven-legged arachnid can be a wise companion for

If Kinmont Willie Armstrong were around today

Patrick Moran's second collection of poetry

(from ‘Cardboard Crowns’)

Combining English with strands of language from her home country of Guinea-Bissau

A darkly comedic tour de force astutely translated

His novel No Way to Say Goodbye was shortlisted for the ITV Crime/Thriller Awards

Hassan Abdulrazzak

a journalist whose sexed-up vision of the revolution has gone viral