DorothyOne evening when they are sitting quietly together she breaks the silence and starts to talk Dorothy tells the complete story of a Yorkshire woman, in verse, from her birth early in the last century to her death in the first years of this. Like so many of her generation, she lived a life both ordinary and extraordinary; shaded by grief, troubled by family dynamics, and restricted by the realities of class, location and gender. Hers was a life where

Paris is an extraordinary city

The Sun is Open sifts through a boxed archive of public and private materials related to the life and death of the author’s father

and look forward to continuing it in the Autumn/Winter issue with a number of equally important authors

An endless chase of the next girl

an arts and politics festival

in a characteristically potent blend

"Here is a good

There are glimpses twenty thousand years into the future to see what chickens might evolve into on our contaminated planet

fate was decided between the ciphers

and pitch-black humour all seething in the same stew

I made it grow so you get all the love you deserve

This anthology asks if poetry