One Day, One Day, CongotayMerle Hodges rare achievement is to create a dynamic portrait of the life of an unquestionably good woman: Gwynneth Cuffie, teacher, lover of children and music, and pillar of her community. Though devastated by tragedy in her politically militant youth, Gwynneth never gives up the struggle against colonialism on the Caribbean island of Cayeri. Her triumph is to find a way between the aspirations of her wounded father, whom colonial education has

This book contains the winners and commended poems from the Verve Festival 2019 Community Themed Poetry Competition judged by Joelle Taylor

and Moroccan poet Hassan Najmi

to extraordinary rendition

inventive and prescient fictional debut from a versatile and brilliant writer

John Lennon’s tooth

‘Kolin’ and ‘Dusty Miller Breaks his Silence’(after Liliencron’s ‘Wer weiss wo’ and ‘Vergiss die Mühle nicht’)

does not shield the reader

and is at work on a further story collection

2000) and The Woman Opposite (Dovetail Press

Things To Do Before You Leave Town

contemplative and reflective

following Luck (1981)