Killing the Nerve Alan Dent

Killing the Nerve Alan DentNot so much autofiction as autojournalism, rising star, Anna Pazos book is an exploration of the end of youth and the beginning of adulthood for the global nomad generation. Anna takes us with her on her journey, fleeing the Mediterranean mediocrity of bourgeois Barcelona life, through her unstructured Erasmus days in Thessaloniki, her first steps in journalism in Jerusalem, her sail across the Atlantic with an unsuitable lover and to post MeToo, pre

Words are her world

Airless Spaces follows characters in psychiatric wards and out in the streets of New York City to move beyond the spectacular and frightening surfaces of institutional spaces to record acts of cruelty and kindness

The visions and intuitive knowledge disappeared

” Ron Jones

The Maroons (escaped slaves) of Jamaica are famous

and in particular what it is that glues us together or causes us to come apart

and countless bylaws were put in place to try to stop the game spreading to any likely-looking blank wall

bringing a vast range of contemporary and historical perspectives into play in poems private and public about the two world wars and the revolutions in Russia and the Empire

from hedge schools in County Clare to pizza on the Somme

an introduction by Abed Ismael

While the lord was busy by the borders of the wood the bold Gawain kept to his soft bed

Annabel Banks