In the Beginning Star begins the songbreaking her strings from untimed waitingagitating the void, calling along constellations, grazing unknown suns.Chords gather, surge with the tides, grating,rattling the shore, breaking into runs to…
Month: December 2025
REVIEW: Full Body Reclaim by Caroline Stancer (Five Leaves) – Neil Fulwood
An established figure on the East Midlands literary scene as one half (with Birgit Friedrich) of the poetry collective Dandelions, Caroline Stancer makes her publishing debut with Full Body Reclaim, a handsomely…
Owen Gallagher – Three Poems
‘BATMAN AND BATWOMAN ROB THE POUNDSTRETCHER STORE!’ We could set up a graffiti school,get commissions from gangs, let students practicein the basement car park before allocating billboards, churches, banks. We could start…
Caroline Stancer – Three Poems
WAITING FOR THE RAPTURE When I visit I walk throughcorridors created by everything from your mother’s flat(she was a hoarder too). The sealed boxesare draped with clothes,empty cans, takeaway containers full of…
Far From Nottingham: The inside track on Alan Sillitoe’s The General – Neil Fulwood
Although well-received in some quarters (“Sillitoe scores a hat trick” – Punch), The General confounded many people. Highly anticipated after the one-two of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of…
Andy Croft’s Escape to Moribundia: An Excerpt
Forthcoming from Broken Sleep in 2027, Andy Croft’s Escape to Moribundia is a verse-novel in Pushkin sonnets. A black comedy about the colonisation of the Future, a study in Hauntology and a…
The Signal-Box by Neil Fulwood
“Hallo!” The word came out of the fog, followed only a second or two later by thevague outline of the man who had shouted it, the more substantial outline of abuilding of…
GHOST STORIES FOR CHRISTMAS: THE TELEVISION TRADITION -Robert Kenchington
Christmas, 1971: the BBC enters its golden age. As the new-fangled colour service opens up to an expanding television audience around the United Kingdom, ‘Auntie Beeb’ fills the schedules with a range…