Tag: trauma

Flashbacks and Flowers

Hana

When a typhoid epidemic tears through the small town of Meziříčíin in 1953, nine-year-old Mira is orphaned and forced to turn to her aunt Hana. A woma …

In the Sweep of the Bay

The woman behind plate glass could not have been in their thoughts, they were not performing to impress and entertain her. Far out, they rode on the w …

Hello Friend We Missed You

Hello Friend We Missed You is Richard Owain Roberts’ debut novel, and continues the characteristic bleak yet humorous style found in his previous shor …

Hey, Bert

In 2019, Roberto Pastore published his first poetry collection, entitled Hey, Bert. There’s a beautiful toucan illustrated on the cover, standing atop …

Hand and Skull

Zoe Brigley’s third collection of poetry is a tender exploration of gender, cruelty, violence, myth, motherhood and physicality. Sometimes unsettling, …

Unspoken II

A secret fell from a seventh-floor window – flung out in a frenzied exchange. As it plummeted, incidents from its life raced across the face of the mo …

Eluned Gramich Reviews Dignity by Alys Conran (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

SCROLL DOWN FOR SCRIPT   Eluned Gramich reviews the novel Dignity by Alys Conran (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), published on 4 April. Researched, s …

The Scattering

Jaki McCarrick’s new collection of short stories features a terrain and concerns that have been present in a writing career garnering numerous prizes …

Other Harbours

“This is a town for old men’” is the first line of Anna Lewis’ poem, ‘Resistance’. It is also the first in her collection Other Harbours, and it opens …