Literature

It is important to state at the outset that the Arachnophilia is perfectly safe for any Arachnophobes. Contains spoilers. It is difficult to do justice to Arachnophilia. At times, It is laugh out loud funny, it has a serious spine running…

Poetry as therapy usually produces dull work. It’s function is to aid a person in their recovery or to help them through a difficulty. Insofar as it helps the person writing it, it has value. For the reader though, it can be turgid. Aaron…

Rob appeared on Comedy Central’s Stand-Up Central With Rob Delaney in November 2018, adding to broadcast credits including performing on Sky One’s The Russell Howard Hour, Sky Arts’ Festival No. 6 and Channel 4’s Random Acts. In 2017, Rob…

Jennifer is the author of four books of poems. The New York Times Book Review said her latest, Days of Shame and Failure, "hits, with deceptive ease, all the poetic marks a reader could want: intellectual curiosity, emotional…

Using the same narrative method that proved so successful for Jay McInerney with his 1984 novel Bright Lights, Big City; Andrew Cowan delivers an at times tormenting account of childhood, told in the second person.  Your Fault begins in…

For most people, mention of Thomas the Tank Engine conjures images from childhood of brightly coloured, moon-faced locomotives happily chugging along under guardianship of the Fat Controller. It sparks a memory of the honky-tonk theme tune…

Welcome to Yet Another Article About International Women’s Day! (To answer the inevitable question: International Men’s Day takes place on the 19th of November.) The theme for IWD 2019 is #BalanceForBetter, a call for gender balance (let’s…

Coronation By Hannah Summers My gaze sticks to the bubblegum hilt  poking out the bush, shaft sheathed in shrubbery. I tug too hard for the trifle, take an impotent step back, brandishing my foam Excalibur  (rather floppy) at the pigeons.…

  Lucy English is a Reader in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University where she is head of the Creative Writing Research Centre. She is a spoken word poet and novelist. She is co-director, with Sarah Tremlett, of Liberated Words, a CIC…

So What Are You Doing Today Mr President? By Louis Antoniou Cadillac one pulls up outside the shop The barbers pole a patriotic salute Out hops Donald for a trim of his mop Leader of the Free World, a beach blonde galoot As the barber cries…