Literature

Zillah Bowes is a writer and filmmaker. She has won the Wordsworth Trust Prize and Poems on the Buses Competition, and was shortlisted for the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, Alpine Fellowship and Listowel Poetry Awards. She has received a…

It is said that a good writer can turn their hand to any genre, and with her debut children’s book, Alison Moore has put that to the test. There has always been a child-like innocence to many of the protagonists in Moore’s adult novels.…

Old haunts We spoke of the supernatural. Hands around hot coffee cups, we swapped stories of rented houses with decaying walls but a concrete presence. Of snarling black dogs in dreams and forbidden Ouija boards. I had never been on the…

They’re at it again. Stephen Colfer, Hannah Mamalis and Peter McGann reunite to bring a trio of plays to the Smock Alley stage. With a mix of tongue-in-cheek, social commentary and dark humour, Personal Space Volume 2 guides us through the…

Nowadays William Blake is celebrated as one of the greatest English artists and poets, but in his time he was ignored and dismissed by the artistic establishment. For all of his life he was tormented by visions; visions of the marvelous and…

When the Gerald Dawe-edited Cambridge Companion to Irish Poets was published earlier this year, it drew a strong reaction from many who pointed out the collection of essays failed to properly take account of women’s contribution to the…

‘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…