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An appropriately large anthology of 25 long, complex, poems which are not afraid to take their time, and, however loosely, to tell a story. What started as a complaint about the '40-line rule' in much of the poetry world has turned into an anthology that not only breaks that rule, but stomps all over it.

More than twenty tales, varying in style from stories not out of place in One Thousand and One Nights, to the completely bemusing. Discover mirrors that predict the immediate future and museums where your personal future life is exhibited in the kind of ephemeral objects that might normally find their way into a dustbin. Meet tadpoles, lazy assassins, and assiduous poisoners; observe deals with the devil, and workplace stress taken to its logical conclusion. Heroes, villains, and animals ¿ anything and anyone could provide the twist in the tale ¿ cursed travellers, persistent dreamers, aliens, robots and even ice might be the object, or source, of love.

Stories and poems about leaving, and being left behind; or that take an unexpected turn, going completely off piste. From authors featured at The Story Sessions, the South London live literature evening. Stories from Emily Bullock, David Steward, Helen Morris, Nic Ridley, Barbara Renel, Carolyn Eden, Cherry Potts, VG Lee, Liam Hogan, Becky Ros, Joan Taylor-Rowan, David Mathews, Sarah Lawson, Oscar Windsor-Smith and Zoe Brigley. Poems from Kate Foley, Gloria Sanders, Nancy Charley, Joy Howard, Math Jones and Elinor Brooks.

Story Cities explore ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-imagine the city. Explore new short fictions in multiple genres that address the city. A guide book to the fictional city, all cities, any city: never identified, the city has a voice of its own.

Everyone thinks of noon as being a split second as the clock's hands draw together, the bell tolls twelve times - but there is so much more to it than that - Solar noon happens as much as half an hour either side of what the clock tells you, deadlines are met, or passed, shadows vanish, vampires hide - or do they? Stories and Poems from 2018's Solstice Shorts festival, read live in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Ynys Mon, Carlisle, London and Cork on the stroke of... or nearly, Noon.Featuring stories from: Barbara Renel, Clare Shaw, Diana Powell, Elaine Hughes, Karen Ankers, Karen Boissonneault-Gauthier, Liam Hogan, Lily Peters, Marka Rifat, Patience Mackarness, Roppotucha Greenberg, & Su Yin Yap.And poems from: Alison Gerhard, Alison Lock, Anne Elizabeth Bevan, Catriona Yule, Elinor Brooks, Gareth Culshaw, Graham Burchell, Ian Grosz, Jane Aldous, Laila Sumpton, Mandy MacDonald, Marika Josef, Michelle Penn, Natalie Gasper, Ness Owen, Nicholas McGaughey, Patricia McCaw, Paul Foy, Sara Elgerot, Stuart MacKenzie & Susan Cartwright-Smith.

November 2018 marks the centenary of the end of World War I. After all the commemorative works of art over the past four years, we felt it was important to reflect on what comes after - an outbreak of peace, and what that meant to the combatants and those left at home. This wide-ranging collection brings together stories and poems from many countries, on both sides of the 1914-18 conflict, finding their inspiration in many wars and their endings; together with stories and poems which are not about war at all, which is as it should be.Stories and Poems by: Ellery Akers, Jane Aldous, Karen Ankers, Annelise Balsamo, Valerie Bence, Anne Bevan, Elinor Brooks, Katy Darby, Peter DeVille, Sarah Deckro, CB Droege, Ken Farrell, Corie Feiner, Norman Franke, David Guy, Chantal Heaven, Anwar Jaber, Steven Jackson, Peter Kenny, Peter Shaver, Julie Laing, Katy Lee, Gerald McCarthy, Nicholas McGaughey, Nina Murray, Ness Owen, Clare Owen, Lily Peters, Nick Rawlinson, Rebecca Skipwith, Lucy Smith, Sarah Tait, James Toupin, Rob Walton, Nick Westerman, Martin Willitts, Jr, and Mantz Yorke.

The third of our #WomenVote100 Anthologies: a showcase for poets Arachne has previously published in anthologies, giving an opportunity to explore their writing in greater depth.These are poems made of myth and family, origins and anger, journeys and home: witty, clever, beautiful and sometimes harsh.Whilst not directly reflecting on the experience of women fighting for the vote, the concerns of women are foremost and are passionately addressed. My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, as if they were in perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.From Vindication by Anne Macaulay, a found poem based on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft.Poems by: Sarah James, Sarah Lawson, Jill Sharp, Elinor Brooks, Adrienne Silcock, and Anne Macaulay.Edited by Cherry Potts.

Stories and poems performed at Solstice Shorts 2017 Dusk: A Wave of Words across the UK.On 21st December 2017, the shortest day of the year, eighteen stories and twenty-eight poems celebrating DUSK were read live on twelve sites, from pubs to arts centres and libraries, by way of woodlands and hillsides, at DUSK: the 2017 Solstice Shorts Festival A wave of words across the UK.Starting in Ellon in Aberdeenshire at 17:07, the festival raced over the country at the speed of dark, with overlapping events taking place in Inverness, Carlisle, Holyhead, Lancaster, Rossendale, Nottingham, Birmingham, Greenwich, Kelston, and Warkleigh, ending in Redruth in Cornwall as full dark fell at 18:20."This is the perfect, atmospheric memento of one of the most imaginative, forward-thinking festivals in recent history: a nation's length celebration of the dying of the light at the turning point of winter." - Patrick GaleDusk lends itself to the anxiety that darkness brings, and there is a fair smattering of edge-of-horror, chills-down-the-spine and keeping-the-lights-on, but there is also humour and the in-between-ness of the cusp of day, when anything is possible.Stories:David Hartley, 'Daylight Savings'David Mathews, 'Flick'ring Shadows'Rob Schofield, 'Four Beaches'Samuel Wright, 'Here'Rosalind Stopps, 'One Two Three, One Two Three'Penny Pepper, 'Wolf's Head'Rob Walton, 'Words On Paper'Helen Slavin, 'At Sky's Edge'Lucy Grace, 'Breadcrumbs'Jackie Taylor, 'Cape Cornwall'Sherry Morris, 'Granda's Plan'Pippa Gladhill, 'In-Between Dog'Alex Reece Abbott, 'MacFarquhar's Bed'Fiona Salter, 'On The Evening Train'Cath Bore, 'The Dusk Runner'Kirsty Fox, 'They Said There Were Pirates'Katerina Watson, 'Threshold'Math Jones, 'Yes, Twilight'Poems:Mandy Macdonald, 'Gloaming'Katie Evans, '16:30'Joy Howard, 'Factory'Jane Aldous, 'After The Sun, Before The Stars'Eileen Carney Hulme, 'Blue Hour'Alice Tarbuck, 'Decoration Of A Fermented Season'Gabrielle Choo, 'Sundown Breath'Kate Wise, 'Tempus Erat'Alannah Egan, 'I Am Dusk'Alison Lock, 'Crow Haibun'Aziz Dixon, 'Calligraphy Of Starlings'Ness Owen, 'Female Blackbird Sings'Jeremy Dixon, 'Driving To Blackpool To Visit My Sister'Lindsay Reid, 'Summer Evening'Sue Birchenough, 'Roost'Nigel Hutchinson, 'Sometimes A Black Cloud'Sue Johnson, 'The Shortest Day'John Bevan, 'Afterglow'John Richardson, 'All This'Kelly Davis, 'Calling Them In'Katy Lee, 'Red Coat, Wolf, Etc'Laila Sumpton, 'Starling Time'Michelle Penn, 'End of Ramadan'Bridie Toft, 'Arrival'Nicholas McGaughey, 'Magic Hour'Lisa Kelly, 'Match Girl'Martyn Crucefix, 'Summers Ended In Sweetness'Elizabeth Parker, 'Dhusarah'Carl Griffin, 'Sea Wedding'

Just as Neil Gaiman¿s The Graveyard Book reworked Kipling¿s The Jungle Book for a modern audience with a liking for the supernatural, Devilskein & Dearlove is a darker, more edgy, contemporary reworking of Frances Hodgson Burnett¿s classic The Secret Garden. An orphaned teenager is taken in by a reluctant distant relative, and in her new home makes an unexpected friend and finds a secret realm. It has shades of the quirky fantastical in the style of Miyazaki¿s (Studio Ghibli) animated films like Spirited Away and Howl¿s Moving Castle (originally a novel by Diana Wynne Jones).Alex says ¿As a child The Secret Garden was one of my first favourite novels - one of the first I relished reading by myself. Although Devilskein & Dearlove is very different, it was inspired by that novel and its themes.¿¿Alex Smith¿s quirky imagination knows no bounds.¿ - André Brink

From tigers in a South London suburb to retired Victorian police inspectors investigating train based thefts, from collectors of poets at Shadwell to life-changing decisions in Canonbury, by way of an art installation that defies the boundaries of a gallery, Stations takes a sideways look through the windows of the Overground train, at life as it is, or might be, lived beside the rails: quirky, humorous and sometimes horrifying.

Moving from 1930s Camden to a Royal Wedding "riot", via football fights, office steeplechases and awkward dates in art galleries, London Lies is a bizarre, funny, moving and sometimes unnerving glimpse into the secret life of the city we all love and know.Featuring nineteen writers and twenty-three stories showcased at award-winning monthly live literature event, London's Liars' League.

This book is designed expressly for romantic Cynics and cynical Romantics. Be careful who catches you reading it ¿ your intentions might be misinterpreted.Join us as we wallow in the many facets of relationships. Explore role-play gone wrong, goldfish that eat loneliness, and a very literal leap into the unknown. Old love, cold love, true love, new love, dead love, we¿re through love ¿ making babies and making whoopee, disappointment and contentment, playing at home, playing away or just playing; missed chances and new romances: everything from first conversation to last breath, strange journeys and stranger destinations.