Literature

‘Both sides’. That’s what Jodi Picoult wants to show in her latest novel – her twenty-third, not counting co-written projects (two YA novels and a musical) or graphic novels (she’s written a Wonder Woman book as well, the prolific fiend!).…

The Sum Diverges By Sam Arrowsmith Submissions are now closed for all HeadStuff poetry categories, including Poem of The Week, Unbound, and New Voices. We are still open for submissions of reviews, essays and interviews, please email…

A Stranger’s Pose, written by Nigerian author Emmanuel Iduma and published just a few weeks ago by Cassava Republic Press, is a somewhat strained blend of travel writing, memoir, poetry, and photography. It is essentially a collection of…

Bedmates By Patrick Campbell The biped and the quadruped with whom I nightly share my bed display a curious rapport as they whistle, snort and snore. In unison they play sonati on their breathing apparati, as though a Bach or Berlioz had…

‘This is a dance inspired by running, it’s not political, it’s not about war, it’s just about running’. In Cloud Study, we track two lives as they race though time and memory to represent a journey home. This acclaimed modern dance…

One hundred years ago, on a stormy starless night in the African rainforest, a gorilla is born. The elders prophesise that the ape’s life will be filled with many misfortunes. Normally, I’d be sceptical about prophecies, but these gorilla…

Kemi mentioned it on Friday night, simply to tell him something amusing, to entertain him whilst he made them a Thai red curry for dinner. She hadn’t particularly planned on saying anything.  “The bank accidentally put three million pounds…

They were both tired and hungry. She wore a pink skirt and a black blouse. He wore cream chinos, a navy polo and a grey flat-cap hat. After a day of visiting the numerous gardens and pagodas they decided to eat at a restaurant beside one of…

Doireann Ní Ghríofa is a bilingual Irish writer, born in Galway in 1981. She writes both prose and poetry, in both Irish and English. Her books explore birth, death, desire, and domesticity. Her awards include the Rooney Prize for Irish…

Reading Under the Hawthorn Tree as a child, the first title in Marita Conlon McKenna’s Children of the Famine trilogy, I found myself initially drawn to the character of Eily. Her selflessness in caring for her younger siblings impressed…