The Beat the Pulse the Wave Format:Paperback

The Beat the Pulse the Wave Format:PaperbackLife comes at you in waves, sometimes they carry you to new shores, sometimes you risk drowning in the flood. Life is a pulse, a heart pumping the blood of now and the blood memories of the past and of your ancestors. Life is a beat, a dance, a festival where you watch Portishead in a field as the sun sets. Life is the rhythm of all three together, it is the beat, the pulse, the wave that brings you to this moment. Jeremy Dixon pauses to consider and

After many peaceful years abroad

Sellass is deserted by Carlo

passionate debut poetry collection

Shamini Sriskandarajah

cleans house

collecting roadside objects — feathers

including V

each story draws the reader towards not bleakness but a tale half-told

and grants by the Arizona Commission on the Arts and Tucson Pima Arts Council

and ghazal to offer intimate views of the speakers and bring us into their interior lives

flying the flag for the performance poetry scene which packs out venues and festival tents around the UK

” — Seán Hewitt