... COMING UP ...
August 30: ST AGNES, CORNWALL:
The Live Poetry Book Club
'With Love, Grief and Fury'
new published works,
literary journals & anthologies
NEW: Callalloo Literary Journal
Out now, ‘New Dimensions: Black British Literatures and Creative Communities’ A special issue edited and curated by Jason Allen Paisant and Karen McCathy Woolf - I have a new short story ‘Rapier’ included here. I’m genuinely so excited to see this particular piece in print, it’s been a long time brewing and bubbling. Beautiful line up of Black British excellence, exquisite work from superstars like Courttia Newland, Johny Pitts, Keith Jarrett, Anthony Jospeh, Malika Booker, Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, and many, many more amazing Black British writers and poets I love, and the incredible cover artwork is by Zak Ove - I’ve so been looking forward to reading this. I am just absorbing it. It’s such a brilliant and inspirational selection. Thank you so much! Published at Johns Hopkins University Press and sponsored by Brown University in the US.
Subscribe: callalooliteraryjournal.com
NEW: The Madrid Review
The Madrid Review is out at the end of August. Excited to see some of my poetry translated into Spanish in this edition. At the heart of this edition are Poems for Palestine - a poignant, powerful series of poems written by poets from around the world, addressed directly to the people of Palestine and Ukraine. These poems speak with urgency and compassion, weaving together voices of solidarity, hope, grief, and resistance. Haia Mohammed, a 22-year-old poet from Gaza whose debut pamphlet, The Age of Olive Trees (Out-Spoken Press) has been lauded for its raw honesty and lyrical strength, helped co-edit the issue and there’s an interview with her too.
Beyond the poems, this issue features exclusive interviews with celebrated authors including Tracy Chevalier (Girl With A Pearl Earring, The Glassmaker), Salena Godden (Mrs Death Misses Death) who also has two poems translated in Spanish by our own Sonia González, to complement her interview, Joel Dicker (The Truth About The Harry Quebert Affair) and Lisa See (The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane).”
Issue 5 of The Madrid Review drops on August 28th with a cover as striking as the voices within. Designed by the amazing Álvaro P-FF of The Fly Factory – who is also interviewed by Lis Iglesias inside – the cover image captures a raw, evocative energy that perfectly frames what this issue stands for - urgent, heartfelt expression in times of crisis. Álvaro’s bold and haunting image draws you in immediately, setting the tone for an issue deeply engaged with stories of resilience, resistance, and empathy…
Subscribe: themadridreview.com
NEW: POET TOWN
- the poetry of Hastings and thereabouts
We launch the POET TOWN anthology next month with our friends at Hastings Book Festival on September 18th. Here’s a peek at our two covers, the wonderful poetry collection curated and edited by Richard Newham Sullivan and a stunning poets portraits photo edition book by Maxine Silver - I’m so looking forward to coming home to share this set of two books, the launch and photography exhibition at the Observer Building.
"Poet Town is not your typical local poetry anthology as the most cursory glance at the contents makes clear. Among those included are bestselling and prize-winning authors like Iain Sinclair, Salena Godden, AK Benedict, Orna Ross, Penny Pepper; a million-selling children’s poet, Brian Moses; legend of British TV comedy, Henry Normal, writer and producer for hit shows like The Royle Family and Gavin and Stacy; a former band mate of Eric Clapton, the British Beat poet and songwriter Pete Brown; a renowned cartoonist, Martin Honeysett, and artist and musician Oli Spleen, and many more, classic poets known and loved the world over. These stars of page and screen have joined forces with fresh talent to celebrate the poetic legacy of Hastings."
Some of the biggest names in British poetry, past and present, are linked to Hastings, classic poets like Lewis Carroll, John Keats, Edward Lear, Christina Rossetti and many more. Now is our chance to celebrate this incredible poetic legacy, but as a community-funded project, we need everyone to get behind it for our voices to be heard. The book celebrates 200 years of Hastings poetry. It brings together, for the first time, poems and poets connected to the town, past and present. The Poet Town project was created to promote the poets and poetry of Hastings UK - please help by pledging today.
NEW: BOG PEOPLE
- a working class anthology of folk horror
My short story ‘I am Hagstone’ is haunting these pages, she will be tapping on the dark side of your mirrors in time for Halloween, October 2025.
Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voices: A.K. Blakemore, Daniel Draper, Emma Glass, Mark Colbourne,Mark Stafford, Hollie Starling, Jenn Ashworth, Natasha Carthew, Salena Godden and Tom Benn. Edited by Hollie Starling.
A phonograph cylinder that plays on a loop for eternity, casting out ghostly spectres of violence; a centuries-old stew made of dismembered body parts; a bigoted woman working at an ossuary, the bones she watches over her only remaining friends; three siblings who set out to scatter their fathers’ ashes, a man none of them could stand; and a hag stone sat in the pocket of a witch. Uncanny and unsettling, wild and wyrd, the ten stories in this collection showcase the best of folk horror. Set in and around England, they celebrate working-class culture and history, and, sharp as a guillotine blade, reveal the real monsters that stalk our green and pleasant land.
Preorder: bookshop.org/p/books/bog-people
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