Slow ThingsWhats so good about being fast? Sometimes a little patience goes a long way, and a slow thing can be both lovely and just what you need. Slow walks, slow thoughts and slow afternoons in the sun all provide inspiration for the poets in Slow Things, an anthology which celebrates taking life at a leisurely pace and casts a spotlight on slow processes and passage of time. Ageing and decay progress with soothing, even reassuring inevitability and the poets

Issa J Boullata: Short story Without a Court Trial

Delyth Jenkins

[this novel is] at once full of disturbing delicacy

During his lifetime he was burnt in effigy by fascists and survived a bombing at his house

serving in Japan

Mohammed Mesrati

Inna Lisnianskaya

witnessed by the reception of his work both by the public and the critics

Seduce is her first novel

to Chris McCabe’s complex

and the whole is enhanced by a series of apposite illustrations by Hartmut Eing

Just as observations and reflections on contemporary life and experiences are harnessed as poetic material