Black Wave Phil Cope

Black Wave Phil CopeGrungy and queer, Michelle is a grrrl hung up on a city in riot. Its San Francisco and its 1999. Determined to quell her addictions to heroin, catastrophic romance, and the city itself, she heads south for LA, just as the news hits: in one year the world is Officially Over. The suicides have begun. And its here that Black Wave breaks itself open, splitting into every possible story, questioning who has the right to write about whom. People begin to

For sixty years he has been challenging the way we see the world and how we think about it

Jalil Heidar: Poems

often in surprising and ill-considered places

Cilydd’s wife Goleuddydd

Vona Groarke's final issue as editor is packed with new poems from leading contemporary poets

others use black humour and biting satire

Song of the Glass of Wine

He laments the repetitive cycles of continuous oppression and suppressed revolutions in Kurdish history

to say could find ways of saying them

Stephanie Norgate and Olivia McCannon

He now works as an Albanian-English translator and interpreter

to escape harsh treatment by her brothers and a forced marriage to a much older neighbour